Life

Language is Important

A scene from Dead Poets Society: a teacher standing on his desk in front of his students

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”

John Keating, Dead Poets’ Society