Show T MISUSED WORDS Becoming Be Very Ver Common In the Speech of Everyday Life Some Instances New Orleans emort I 1 was just thinking of the words word that are often misused In common speech tha the speech of o everyday everdy me life said si an observant man maU and nd it all aU goes to show how now thoughtless men and women are in a great geat many re meets The needier need ot Of giving words bearing a relation just ft a shade s de d hi In I some o of the uses to which they the are put Is o of course curse apparent to any per person person person son who wil will think of r this thi subject for a moment momet Take lake ae for instance the words speaK and talk We Ve can see at t a glance that while speak speak and talk under certain certIn circumstances and In some som uses use to t which they maybe may be out nut have hae exactly the same meaning under certain cerain other oter circumstances it would be shockingly Inappropriate to substitute the nIle for tor the other We Ve often use speak spek when we want to say ay some man ma has haa ha written thus and so s as or Bacon or Chaucer or too the Bible or or the Koran Kr speak of so and so o We Ve say very ver that a lecturer an orator a preacher and so 50 soon SOon on n wi will speak pek tonight on a certain certin subject subject By which we mean mean also al that he will talk tk But we have come to mark marka a difference ce between speaking and talking talking Is i ordinary It is 15 plain conversation Speaking Is i some something thing thin more dignified something more moro ornate So 0 speak speaking speech speaker all al tako tao on meanings at times which differentiate e theta them tem from front talk tik talking talker Yet 4 speak peak Is to talk So in the te law the word oral orni takes on Dna a meaning somewhat different from its Is genuine Jenuine etymological meaning But I was thinking more ot pf t the ver very common confusion of ot the th words representing the senses of hearing and sight sight Should we e esay say sav that tat we have haie heard or that we have seen this play or this opera I wen to o see the opera opera Carmen Camen I 1 went to hear Hamlet Now which la is i collect CO one you will wi probably say Of ot course coure we hear hear and an see seQ as a matter mater of oC fact But we may say we hear an onera and see a ii n play I believe this conclusion is wrong wron wn My own judgment Is that we hear in both botn We Va go got to hear Hamlet Hamlet just as a we go to hear hearan hea an opera opra Seeing is 18 an Incident to the hearing nearing Hearing is the main thing t To Illustrate the difference between hearing and seeing an opera or a play pIa let us assume assume a n case of Or two men who attend tend a performance or of Ham Jiam Hamlet let lpt the play and Carmen Caren the opera oper One of them is blind and the te other oter Is deaf Which man do you suppose sup ose would get Jet the greatest amount of ot pleasure out of the performances tile the tlc man mart who heard henr the words of ot the plaY and the blended Trended melodies and words of tile the opera oper or the te man who viewed vIew d both with wih pantomimic productions Manifestly the man mn who could oud hear would de derive derive rive the greatest greatest pleasure plea rc This seems seem to me mc present the case in Its 11 strongest possible light Ight and It ft would seem to Rive give Ive the preference to the word hear Still bull Sti men may my over matters maters of at this sort and after all aU each cacti man may judge j ag for f himself Common use has ha no doubt made the u use e of either el her hear or see e admissible |