school o' rock [monosyllabic remix]

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery;
and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific
phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make
swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go
rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are carrying
thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for
themselves. It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to
express any opinion one holds in words of one syllable. If you say
"The social utility of the indeterminate sentence is recognized by
all criminologists as a part of our sociological evolution towards a
more humane and scientific view of punishment," you can go on talking
like that for hours with hardly a movement of the gray matter inside
your skull. But if you begin "I wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown
to say when Jones shall come out," you will discover, with a thrill
of horror, that you are obliged to think. The long words are not the
hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more
metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word
"degeneration."
- gkc

http://lab404.com/plotfracture/whorl/tom.html
http://pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_idA8
http://playdamage.org/55.html

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