R. G. Harris of Detroit,
Michigan, read the proceedings below and passed the following along:

I agree especially with the criticism of broadcast journalists
and would add that they should also be forever forbidden from asking
inane questions of crime or disaster victims. Does anyone really doubt
how one feels when they have seen their home destroyed (totally destroyed
to the reporters) by fire, flood, tornado, etc. Or need they ask how
the family of a murder victim feels?Many other words or phrases should be eliminated. Among them:

“A real team player;” “Ready to hit the ground running;”
a “self-starter;” and “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team‘.”

We should also stop “doing lunch” and “taking meetings.”

As a retired police supervisor, I also have strong negative feelings
about many cases of “cop-speak.” I once heard an arresting
officer testify as follows:

“I observed a male subject exit a red colored vehicle and
proceed on foot in a westerly direction.”

Wouldn’t it be easier to see a man get out of a red car and walk
west? A “red-colored” as opposed to a red-flavored or red-shaped?
A “westerly direction as opposed to a westerly size?

Do we ever sound so stupid as when we try to sound smart?