Verbal Virus

From a list of 2008 Memorable Quotes -

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, imploring graduates at Boston College to curtail the use of "like" "awesome" and "you know" in everyday speech: "Please, please do what you can to cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation."

In my craw, the kernel of creativity is language. (How were we created? God spoke.) Those with the capacity, the education, the interest to create only numb their own creativity all too frivolously, I fear.

If McCullough had included "HAHA", the temptation to forward this quote would be irresistible.