We can't say 'aloha' now, either?

I like to consider myself a lover of language and words; you have to be if you are a writer and especially if you are a prolific reader. I spent a large chunk of my adult life traveling the world. While I am not fluent in any other language besides the one I grew up with, I tried to pick up a few words and phrases here and there from the various countries I visited.

But according to a writer for USA Today, if you don’t speak the native tongue, you shouldn’t use words from other languages, whether in good faith or not. Yet again, no doubt an overpaid liberal pundit is trying to tell us what we should and, more importantly, should not utter from our mouths.

Where I come from, that’s called censorship. Where I come from, I have a certain inalienable right to free speech, whether or not it hurts your delicate sensibilities. So let’s look at this recent attempt to tongue-tie the masses.