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The Art of Writing and Speaking the Coglish Language
if there is a subject of really universal Interest and utility. It is the art of writing and speaking one's
own language effectively. It is the basis of culture; but it is infinitely more than that it is the basis of
business. No salesman can sell anything unless he can explain the merits of his goods in effective
English, e can write an advertisement or present his ideas and facts, in a letter. Indeed, the way we
talk, and write letters, largely determines our success in life.
One must understand that language is no more than a medium, it is like air to the creatures of the
land or water to listes if it is perfectly clear and pure, we do not notice it any more than we notice
pate air when the sun is shining in a clear sky. or the taste of pure cool water on a hot day.
Similarly, language is merely a medium for thoughts and emotions. The intelligence of a finely
wrought brain, and a good mind will make far more out of a bad medium than a poor mind will
make out of the best.
There is a general belief that incorrect use of language is at most no more than a negative evil: that
while it may be a good thing to be correct, no special harm is involved in being incorrect. Let us
look into this point.
While language as the medium of thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's
influence, in other respects it is like the skin of the body, a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and
a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought and a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on
the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so, careless
use of language reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly careless, illogical, and
Inaccurate in its thinking-
The ordinary person will probably not believe this, because he conceives of good use of language as
an accomplishment to be leamed from books and a system of genteel manners to be put on when
the occasion demands. In this, however, he is mistaken. Language which expresses the thought
with strict logical accuracy is correct language, and language which is sufficiently rich in its
resources to express thought fully, in all its lights and bearings, is effective language. If the writer at
speaker has a sufficient stock of words and forms at his disposal, he has only to use them in a
Strictly logical way and with sufficient fullness to be both correct and effective. Thats how language
should be made use of
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