August 21, 2003
Too many words
Fracas. It's a brawl. Look up brawl. It's a fracas. So why did we borrow a word from the French? Maybe Orwell was right and we should remove some of the unnecessary words. I think he was silent on the French though. Words are difficult Johnnies though especially if you have to write them by hand. Have you ever done that? Well of course, but I mean a decent amount in recent times? On holiday I tried to do a paper diary and, although I wrote almost 30 smallish pages, I failed because I only got to day 4. It's hard work and makes my wrist ache. I found I wanted to write a lot more than just "Got up, went to the beach, had a bbq, drank beer" and it is not easy in the 100 degree temperatures and I lose interest at night. For posterity, or whatever, I'll copy out the first bit later on maybe.
