If language is not correct,
then what is said is not what is meant;
If what is said is not what is meant,
then what must be done remains undone;
If this remains undone,
morals and art will deteriorate;
If justice goes astray,
the people will stand about in
helpless confusion.
Hence there must be
no arbitrariness in what is said.
This matters above everything.
-- Confucius
[Kung Fu-tse] (551-479 B.C.)