Waikato Times letter of the week #50

This is from the 5 May edition. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times.

Language changes

Foul language is now the norm; and accepted today. It’s a contrast to the way English was presented. English language is among the most articulated languages in the world today but, over the years, it has changed. In the extreme we have the older grace before meals dating back to a time of peril:

God Bless our Meate

God Guide our Waies

God Give us grace our Lord to please

Lord long preserve in peace and health

Our gracious Queen Elizabeth

(George Bellin – Iron Monger, Exeter, England 1588) 

This was the time of the Spanish Armada and the threat of sea invasion of England.

But the question is: do we want our children and grandchildren repeating foul language back to us? The media in all its forms has become a corrupting influence.

Ken Weldon

Matangi