Why Do Words Matter? Because . . .
As Reginald Fleming Johnston says in the movie, The Last Emperor, “If you can not say what you mean, your Majesty, you will never mean what you say.” Words matter. The precise word matters even more.
Johnston was the tutor for the last emperor of China.
Woe Is I
Why Adverbs, Maligned by Many, Flourish in the American Legal System. In case you were sleeping restlessly last night, wondering about this.