B E B E R E

Aah, nostalgia.

Do you remember back when language was actually considered a skill to be honed? When Standard Business English was still taught in schools? Maybe I'm dating myself, but I long for my lost youth with its sentence diagrams and Warriners Grammar exercises. For the days when the essays of Orwell and Emerson were required reading in high school. For the time when my old standby, The Elements of Style, was standard issue.

(-che brava, Sissy. Che effing brava.)