{"id":5583,"date":"2017-04-26T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/on-reaching-out\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T10:54:20","slug":"on-reaching-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/on-reaching-out\/","title":{"rendered":"On ‘Reaching Out’ and ‘Educate’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Language rant up ahead! All language lemmings to their safe spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last Fall I made an appointment to speak with an auto salesperson. I arrived at the dealership on time, but she didn't. After waiting five minutes, I consulted the general manager.  His response was that if she didn't arrive soon, he would "reach out to her." About the same time  I received an e-mail message from the Internet Chess Club hawking some product or other. "We are reaching out to inform you . . . ."<\/span><\/p>\n

Examples are easily multiplied. What explains the prevalence of this ridiculously inflated use of an otherwise unobjectionable expression?  <\/span><\/p>\n

If your spouse dies, I may reach out to you to offer my condolence and help.  But if I notice a rattlesnake near your back door, I won't 'reach out' to you about it, but simply inform you of the fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if I inform you of some paltry fact, I haven't 'educated' you about it, but merely provided you with a scrap of information. <\/span><\/p>\n

An educated person is not the one whose head is stuffed with information, but the one whose experientially-honed judgment is capable of making sense of information. To become well-informed is not difficult; to become well-educated is a task of self-development for a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can we blame the decline of language and good sense on liberals?  I'll leave you with that (rhetorical) question.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Language rant up ahead! All language lemmings to their safe spaces. Last Fall I made an appointment to speak with an auto salesperson. I arrived at the dealership on time, but she didn't. After waiting five minutes, I consulted the general manager.  His response was that if she didn't arrive soon, he would "reach out … Continue reading “On ‘Reaching Out’ and ‘Educate’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}