| | Due respect, you're all of you foolishly wrong.
There is a lingua franca for everyday life, incase you hadn't noticed, which does not consist of acting like a Shakespearean Vulcan. Matthew, you've got the wrong end of the stick entirely and the columnist is in the right this time.
Tell you who around here is good at it too, Peter Cresswell. In person he's like any decent 'working-class man' going about his business but this belies hidden depths of intelligence. Someone who can swear like a sailor and deliver speech about freedom as casually and self-evidently as if addressing a building site crew on the job can, in a blink, change steps to foot it intellectually with the bow-tied academic economists or soft-handed Ivory-tower sophist philosophers at Auckland University.
It's not about dumbing down, it's not about stunting the growth of poppies! It's about being able to communicate with your common man in a language right down to earth that everybody can easily understand.
Who liked Firefly and succinct Serenity? They speak easy but they're not dumb. Lucidity is the better part of a cognoscenti.
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