Easy on the Greek

Enough is enough:

Maria Sanford, a volunteer deaf interpreter at her church, used to play the piano, knit and paint with watercolors in her spare time. Now she spends most afternoons icing her hands.

The reason: the new pastor at her 3,000-member church uses "an unnecessary amount of long words and foreign words" each Sunday, says her furious husband.

"Does he really have to say ‘metamorphosis’ twenty-one times and ‘Thessalonica’ eighteen times in the same sermon?" he says. "Multiply that by four services and you understand why I’m upset."

Good advice: avoid "transformational" and "eschatology" for starters. (I was actually VP of the Dactology Club at FHU, and to my present embarrassment even included this on some early resumes.)