Language is a tricky instrument to weild. Special languages have been developed, with their jargon, to match all the different sciences and disciplines. The more these disciplines grow and change the more their languages diverge. This is because it is meaning that matters, language the slave to it. To get the message accross, then, one should say what they mean. Say anything you like, say anything you can as long as it transmits an idea from one mind to another. Say with clarity or say with mumbles, say happy or say sad, say threateningly or say pleasently. Say the opposite, the positive, the negative, the double negative. Say whatever works. Meaning deserves uttter respect, 'saying' is a prostitute to be abused and thrashed and moulded into whatever gets to job done.

Say what you mean? Yes!

Mean what you say? How abhorrent!

And where would we be if we did? Neitzsche couldn't write Zarathustra, and we wouldn't be able to understand it. Poetry would be over. Shakespeare would be crippled. But everybody already knows this, surely? We know to listen to the music, not the song. Or where would we be?

Many a man's tongue has broken his nose.

What this says:

Many males tear their own nasal cartaledge by licking it.

What this means:

Many of us are ourselves the incindiaries for the blows we receive.

An unwilling horse is more trouble than walking.

What this says:

A defective equestrial conveyance is a disvalue.

What this means:

Homonologous aids are not as good as their name.

I'll be hung, drawn and quartered for a sheep just as well as a lamb.

What this says:

Indescretions with mutton livestock are repugnant irrespective of vintage.

What this means:

Where punnishment severity is constant, the spoils of transgression should be maximised.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

What this says:

To risk 1p is to risk £1.

What this means:

A worthwhile investment deserves a worthwhile commitment.

A stitch in time saves nine

What this says:

Swift sewing repairs to failing weaving will shorten the chore by a ratio of 1:9.

What this means:

Preventative maintenence will eliminate the need for desperate cures.

A picture's worth 1000 words

What this says:

A picture's worth 1000 words, 2000 bytes, or 16000 bits.

What this means:

That many words must be spent on what graphics can illustrate in one stroke.