"JARGON."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 2

"JARGON."

SAMPLES OF LATTER-DAY BfrGLlSif. , "W-o find that deceased met bis death by tlio act ci God, caused by the $»d-" ■den overflowing.of. the.' river' and helped out by tko scandalous neglect ot the overseers." ' ;S?i; : A}'ibtiV|iQuillet-Cfiueb, , tatuj'i'Hg m Wlutpfield's. TuheriKiCle. recontiy, si- ■ leged that this "Veftlict was. 'actually returned by a coroner's jury intlio w-c-r.t country. A drowned postman wits the; victim of it. ■ • Sir Arthur's subject was "Writing,. Ooocl and Bad." "Miss Gorelli flve .con-tinned)-wrote: 'I was entirely iwlifFor«nt as to the resnlfas -gE the gaime, caring .nothing at all as. to whetl'ie-i*l 'had' losses, or gajiis,' Why 'havo losses'?" • he asked. ''Why not 'lose' P And if you are ; entirely indifereiitj of courso yon ears nothing at all, so why say .it twice over? Why iwfc say, 'I inns indiffereiit whether I won or lost,' and have <lmio with it?" Sii' Arthur .made vigorous stabs against what he called jargon. "A Cabinet Minister says: 'The answer to the hoii. member's qvsostjon k in the affirmative.'' What ho moans is 'Yes.'" ■ '"Whenever your pen slips into tlio words: Case, 'instate, character, nature, degree, condition. persuasion, description, pull yourself, up and take thought. ' " 'ilo was conveyed to hie homo m an satoxicatod coj'idition.' Vvhy not say he was carried home dfßttk?"