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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1872

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 39, No. 14.

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Good Language.

YOUNG people should acquire the habit of correct speaking and writing, and abandon as early as possible any use of slang words or phrases. The longer you put this off the more difficult the acquirement of correct language will be; and if the golden age of youth, the proper season for the acquisition of correct language, be passed in its abuse, the unfortunate victim will most probably be doomed to take slang for life. You have merely to use the language which you read, instead of the slang you hear, to form a taste in agreement with the best speakers and poets in the country.