Words.

I like words.  I love to read, I expect people to mean what they say and I hope they say what they mean.  I like it when my children use words that I don't expect from their age.  I really like it when my wife uses those obscure long words.

What does this mean for the blog?  Something for me to write about that won't take too much time.  Been busy today and I want to go to bed.

I've noticed speech patterns getting worse; sometimes people will use bad grammar, sometimes they will use made up words.  What do I mean?  Don't and Didn't are not interchangeable.  One means "do not" the other means "did not".  One is present tense and the other is past tense.

Another trend I've seen is creating words, my pet peeve word is "conversate".  That's not a real word.  You can "converse" or have a "conversation" but you can't "conversate".

You ask me what's the matter?  If we don't know how to use words correctly will our art become stagnant? Will it revert to just visuals?  Will our only source or entertainment or news only be pictures?  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  True, but does that picture need a thousand words because they don't know what words to use?