Go Freda! Since I am frequently a 'plain language' editor, I find Wolfgang's empirical arguments maddening but I must say your use of Latin is also baffling. I think I understand most of it but I would be hard pressed to translate any of it into plain English. Very funny. I'm not sure but I think I may have had gullibilitis.

It started when I was a schoolgirl. I was walking home with a couple of older boys the day the first manned spacecraft returned to Earth. They strung me along and then asked, "Don't you think its sad that after all that hope, the astronauts drowned in the space capsule?"

That night at dinner (trying to appear worldly) I informed my father of the sad fact. It took him a long time to convince me I was wrong. After that incident, I became a little more cautious about believing everything I heard.