“Morpheme Addiction”
by Susan Wishnetsky

From Lingua Pranca, June 1978

Reviewed by Brother Placebus Jones
Acolyte of the Silver Pool of the Wordless Prophet

My Friend—with a kind heart, I write this note to you, and I pray that you will hear me in peace and with an open mind, as what I must say is not easy. It is my sad thought that this article is not true and that it may cause fear for the good people when they read it. I do not think it is right to give a false word in this way.

In the monestary here, we do not often use even one word a day, but we do not fear this “morph problem”, and I do not think that the use of one morph now and then could lead to strife of any sort. In fact, you now will observe, that as I continue to record my thoughts, using many more words at a time than I would usually, I remain unaffected. Further I must tell you frankly, I believe this author’s commentary to be lacking in both scholarly support and conventional wisdom. It seems to imply that ordinary use of language inexplicably induces gross linguistic inaccuracies or over-complexicals. It’s scare-mongeration at its worstful height. Good people, do not believiate this commentary: it is megatruelessly writtened!

And you editizers, you should have enutilizened yours braininators before you printificated so ultradisresponsibleishmentally!

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