Talking about how we talk about things

By: Andrew Donaldson

Outlets: West Virginia Watch

Published: August 21, 2026

Words: 1,165

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Somehow we are supposed to have efficiency in government while not having efficiency in how we talk to each other about government. No wonder we get more of the same but louder, faster, harder.

In ancient Rome there was a job titled nomenclator, taken from the Roman way of naming things, who was an assistant or slave explaining who folks were and what they were doing. In a formal setting …

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