Maybe we just never see the foods, the recipes, the best ingredients possible, any more.

Maybe we have forgotten what they are.

Also, maybe we are falling back on what we learned as children, at our mother's table.

Dh was born in 1924...I was born in 1938. And we both went through the food hardships of war. ...He in the service, and me on the home-front.

Plus, we speak the language we grew up on...not the gobbledy-gook they are feeding children today.

Often, I think, CureZoners feel I am 'older' and 'retro' in the way I write...not realizing that I write and edit carefully in an attempt to remind everyone of the English of their parents and grandparents.

I have had a famous author tell me as a friend that the use of commas annoys young people of today.

I heartily apologize, my friends...but I figure that, if some of us keep writing that way, we keep the language of yesteryear alive.

We want you to understand, not only our meanings in our posts, but the books of the last century.

I can see that the day may come when our 6 and 3 year-old, and newborn grandchildren will not understand even what we say.

Change is not only happening, but it is happening faster than ever before in history.

Even politicians are changing the words and phrases to make them more palatable, more acceptable by the general public. Advertising has been doing that for years. Medical people, too, and scientists, have been keeping basic understanding a 'secret' from laypeople, you and I, by burying stuff in jargon...words you and I don't normally follow.

How many of us here have to stop and guess what initials mean? My first biggie, on CureZone, was OO.

If we can't read what our forefathers wrote, if we never edit our own writings for typos and spelling, we lose communication of ideas. ...We lose each other...we lose the value of forums like this.

Some examples...

...'Lose' does not equal 'loose', and,

...'Then' does not equal 'than'.

When I went back to college, I was fascinated to hear one girl use the word 'ax' when she meant 'ask'...and she either didn't know she was doing it, or she was being funny on purpose.

The 'f' word, in some circles, replaces almost every word you care to name.

These are 'blind spots', my friends. We are noticing less and less of what we are missing.

We, as a group, are becoming more and more dependent on advertising for our truths and common sense.

Our minds are terrible things to waste.

F.