Dr. Meyers has contributed to the Journal before; in each case he has presented an unusual, but pertinent, topic dealing with some phase of communication. This short discussion of the phrase Founding Fathers is particularly appropriate this year.

Some wry, but discerning observations of the psychological impact on linguistics in a technological civilization. It is noted that a perverse nuance in a milieu obsessed with and possessed of inanimate objects is that the technical vocabulary becomes more imbued with human traits and emotional hues.