Words That Should Be Shortened

Junk: 10.02.07 Observations, Politics

I am a proponent of efficiency and like Al Gore, think we should, as humans, reduce our “carbon footprint”. So I propose that we shorten words in an effort to speak less and reduce the amount of carbon-dioxide that we emit every day.

First word that we should shorten is “disgruntled”, does this word really need the negative prefix “dis”? Have you every heard someone being “gruntled”? No. Well there is my point why do we need to put a prefix on a word never used positively?

Next word would be “inept”, I don’t think I have met any ept people but I sure have met a few inept people. Let’s just shorten this word and remove the prefix “in.”

There are many other words like these: overwhelmed, disdain , unflappable, etc.

Please be sure to leave any words you can think of in the comments of this post. If you could, post them soon, because I plan on taking this in a bill to congress. Maybe congress could get *something* done this decade.