Bad language

摘要

Having lambasted you for years for your abuse of English, I am delighted to see recent signs of improvement. I am now able to read the journal from front to back without hurling it from me in disgust at yet another issue (note: correct use of that word) full of mangled verbiage. And more! Better still, you have a list of banned words! I am so pleased to see this and would like to add a few more. Firstly, ‘issue’ is grossly overused but I suspect it is beyond resuscitation. Secondly, ‘within’ is a classic example of using a longer word when a shorter one (‘in’) is perfectly adequate and to my cortex at least, much more suitable.