FAULTY LANGUAGE by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 13.

FAULTY LANGUAGE.

By Editor

THERE is one expression now becoming common in the papers (no respectable author has yet admitted it into a book), which every lover of good speech should discard. It is this: "in the near future." The well-known word, "soon," fully expresses the idea, and is free from the awkwardness of the longer expression. When we meet it in a paper we confess to a desire to hasten on to another article. In this day of economy of speech it is not seemly to resort to circumlocution where a simple, short word answers, as it always has answered, every purpose.