WA2K Radio is now on the air, Part 3

Flowers of Plain Speech. [An apology by an Optimist).—Why take a pessimist view of House of Commons language ? You can't call it un-English. Isn't even the worst of it, at any rate, somewhat of the Vulgar Tongue ? Grant the fastidious Tory and finical Aristocrat that vituperation, invective, aspersion, and the application of forcible expressions to obnoxious opponents may perhaps have resulted from the popular election of Men of the People—Manhood Suffrage. A man's a man for a' that. Enough diamonds are still diamonds, and diamonds that shouldn't be cut. Opprobrious epithets may be allowed, as the natural utterances of reasoners in a rage. Everybody when in a rage is in earnest. Earnestness means sincerity. Indignant, passionate, and infuriated assailants bespeak themselves sincere. Of course they sometimes vent their animosity in terms such as cold-blooded scribes can only indicate by blanks, dashes and stars. Well, but the latter do but serve to suggest luminous points. Let us evermore look at the bright, not the dark side of things, and of words also, which, from a one-sided view, may seem just a little shady. " No abuse that, no abuse."