This poster is generally not one who advocates word choice just to aggrandize or exaggerate some amalgamated sense of literacy. Rather, I see any ambiguous flogging of vocabulary as an attempt to sound vague and open the subject to more than one interpretation. The English language is ambrosial. Its words are extremely pleasing to the senses and almost divine (as if they are indeed related to the gods) and big words are certainly delicious. To the semiliterate, such usage is an anachronism. Literate people are an artifact appearing after their time and, when seen by the shallow texting generation, seem outside of the callow crowd’s chronological order. Education seems anomalous and peculiar. To be widely read in these circles makes one unique. Heavy reading is contrary to the norm, sagacity, an anomaly. I feel like an antediluvian animal; ancient, outmoded, unappreciated, unwelcome after the IT flood. Here, antipathy and unmitigated hostility toward literacy is an objection often expressed. This aversion one necessarily arbitrates to settled stultification and a primeval dispute by those who live by impulse and stay that way hoping to assuage their personal deficiencies. I hope to appease and satisfy, to attenuate and thus weaken this audacious defect of the modern world.