Status Updates From The Lexicographer's Dilemma...

Dnf @ pg. 100... I might come back to it, but at this rate the library is going to hunt me down if I don't return their book

"When doubters pointed out that the Académie Française, with its staff of forty of the nation's greatest scholars, took forty years to compile a similar dictionary, he replied with one of his best zingers: "This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman.""

"The best way to write well, Swift insisted, is to think clearly and to be direct, because "the Faults" in English expression "are nine in ten owing to Affectation, and not to the Want of Understanding." The speakers who made a mess of the language did so because they were too concerned to show off "their Learning, their Oratory, or their Knowledge of the World.""