WHY SPEAK GROSSLY?

I really don't know if it is for snob, away people feel they are cool, or a human stupidity of the time and an incrasing lack of good education.

But quite frankly it becomes a real shock to me when I hear or read someone saying things using a gross language, bad words, and ideas that reflect a lack of good education, a lack of respect for others and for themselves, a real denigration of the human being as such.

Actors, journalists, politicians in Latin America have lost –with exceptions that deserve to be recognized— the dignity of the expression and the beauty of our language.

Those that provoke disgust to hear or read, maybe think that are more popular, that reach more people, or finally, they are not conscious of the misery of their vocabulary.  They only can prevail in a society that has lost its most cherished values, that have been denigrated and decimated in its quality of life.

Make an effort to write well, to speak well, to refer to others with respect and gentleness, and above all, using the richness of the Spanish language.

And this appeal is especially directed to all those who consider themselves communicators. TV anchors, reporters, commentators, people who write chronicles or editorials, people who fill the pages of magazines.

They are enormously responsible because the general public consume what they produce and therefore, they can’t take away of them their responsibility not only in the formation of opinion but in the way this opinion is transmitted and shared.

Milton W. Hourcade