Endeavour: Difference between revisions

A {{t|verb}} that illustrates the practical problem with plain English. “[[Endeavour]]” is a silly word: long, archaic, and it conjures images of Captain Spaulding, in a pith helmet, slashing through mangroves in the Congo on the hunt for Dr. Livingstone. Its alternative — to “[[try]]” — is better in every way that a plain speaker cares about: shorter, more idiomatic, plainer, less fussy.  

But there lies the problem: “[[try]]” slices cleanly through the semantic murk that “[[endeavour]]” so skillfully stirs up. It makes clear something the [[Mediocre you|draftsman]] rather hoped to obscure: namely, that this is a feeble covenant, barely worth the paper it is written on.