I have been watching MSNBC all morning mostly to hear more condemnation of the world's worst person, Donald Trump. But there is also a lot of coverage about today's eclipse. And here's what bothers me. All morning highly paid anchors and deeply educated reporters can't seem to find a better description of this rare and remarkable event than "cool". I hate the word cool since it is a lazy replacement for hundreds of other adjectives that are far more descriptive. It seems to me to be a word for tween ages who have not developed a vocabulary, yet it is epidemic among adults, even those who are college educated but unwilling to employ descriptive words they have learned over a lifetime. Among the lexicon lazy, cool is used to describe an endless selection of experiences, events, and encounters. What a waste of an education! The word "cool"has been leeching off our language for a long time now, but it's just the latest in slop-pop language and sure to fade like its cousins fab, funky, groovy, fly, phat, gnarly, rad and the cat's meow.
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