Summary Of Now What Do I Say? By Joan Lester Steinau

Joan Lester Steinau created an essay titled “Now what do I say?” about the need for language to develop to keep track with society and some of the issues that a historical background has caused within some words. One of Steinau’s paragraphs is an except that really makes sense to me as an avid reader and a lover of common events, paragraph 4, page 78. Steinau states the contradiction between the words “warlord” and “lords of the manor” or “knight”. Our first instinct when we hear the term warlord is to imagine a character who rules by absolute force in a small militaristic country that is not developed and full of turmoil. In contradistinction, a “knight” in the defender of the innocent and the savior of the people. A person, who everyone