Vociferate

vo•cif•er•ate (verb)
to shout, complain or argue loudly or vehemently
Origin: late 16th century, taken from the latin vociferat, "exclaimed".

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The reason I chose to start with this particular word is that its definition relates to the purposes of this blog. That isn't to say that we are going to be arguing passionately, disrupting the serenity of someone's morning coffee with our loud lexicon and pushy parlance.

What we aim to do is to argue against one of the greatest evils of our day: the diminishing and decaying of vocabulary in modern society.
Human language is always suffering because of ignorance and lethargy. I, as the aforementioned "English one", am not exempt from the horde of villagers chasing the remnants of language through the city streets, hoping to brutalize and beat it until it has bled out the last of its precious phraseology.

I love words. I like to play with them and create all types of sentences, from the seriously sublime to the outright ridiculous. Words are very powerful things, useful in both creation and destruction. Words can build a city and conquer a nation.

We forget words, we ignore words, and we abuse words every day. I will admit right off the bat that I am guilty of every grammatical error and usage sin under the vernacular sun. I will also admit to my waning tolerance of this issue and that my fervour to right this wrong has reached its apex.
I don't want to just sit here at my computer, chatting with friends and family without challenging myself to use the language at my disposal to its fullest potential to convey love, hate, admiration, adjuring and sometimes just silliness.

Language is the only way in which we can communicate other human beings outside the walls of our minds and the shells of our bodies. If we can't communicate properly with other people, we lose all that makes us human. We lose language and we lose all everything that we are.

So we need to be proactive in preserving the English language, all that it contains, and all that it represents. So then, we will vociferate against anything that deprives us of discourse and all that it means to  us as human beings.






"But regardless of what weapons they try to use to effect silence, words will always retain their power. Words are the means to meaning, and for some, the annunciation of truth." 
-V (V for Vendetta)


Anyway, that's my rant. Hope it didn't scare you off. As seriously as I take words, I can't enjoy language without being able to joke around with words and play with them like a child and his best friend on a teeter-totter. We like to be serious, but also spend time together vociferating at the top of our lungs:


"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"





Talk to you later,


Clay