Strictly Speaking [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONA Protective Interest in the English LanguageWill America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will. The outlook is dire; it is a later point in time than you think. The evidence is all around us:In March, 1974, the White House press secretary, Ron Ziegler, explained a request for a four-day extension of a subpoena from the Watergate prosecutor for certain files. The extension was needed, Ziegler said, so that James St. Clair, President Nixon's attorney, could "evaluate and make a judgment in terms of a response."We are all of us ready to man the barricades for the right to evaluate and make a judgment in terms of a response, but Ziegler could have said that St. Clair wanted more time to think about it. That he didn't is a commentary on the state of language in the United States, and the state of the language is a commentary on the state of our society. It must be obvious that our society, hke our language, is in serious trouble when a13