What's Paucity Mean?

As you can see, I'm retooling the ol' blog. Never fear, hopefully I will get it right. I might just have to go back to the old style. I'm not too fond of this one... or maybe host it someplace else. We'll see.

In any case, this article is rather interesting. It talks about Diane Ravitch and how she wrote a book with a son about cultural literacy, and how our society seems to be afflicted by a dearth of good words to use. Even politicians and policy makers quote past speeches, not up to creating a new and powerful language themselves. Interesting, given how many speechwriters there are out there.

"Limp Language Leaves Kids with an Awesome Paucity." (Kersten, K. The Star Tribune. Jan. 7th, 2007).