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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 36.

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Sound Advice.

WE advise all young people to acquire early in life the habit of using good language, both in speaking and writing, and also to abandon the use of slang words and phrases. The longer they live, the more difficult the acquisition of good language will be; and if the golden age of youth, the proper time for the acquisition of language, be passed in abuse, the unfortunate victim of neglected education is very probably doomed to talk slang for life. Money is not necessary to procure this education.
Every man has it in his power to use the language which he reads, instead of the slang which he hears; to form taste from the best speakers and poets of the country; to treasure up choice phrases in his memory, and habituate himself to their use, avoiding, at the same time, that pedantic precision and bombast, which show rather the weakness of vain ambition than the polish of an educated mind.—Ex.