Language should exercise the memory and imagination, but the English language has gone the opposite direction for a hundred years. First you had people who thought language should become scientific, and now all the imagery is dead, people want to simplify the words. It's like taking 1200kbps dynamically compressed music and then shrinking it to 128kbps mp3.
"I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
my take of ecclesiastes with simple modern english: "Lol pwnd"
