My New Campaign

The negativity of the English language is upsetting. Consider the following:

• you can be disgruntled, but how many gruntled people have you ever seen?
• you can be disingenuous, but there are apparently no genuous people among us!
• you can inadvertently do something, but who admits to doing things advertently?
• superheros get to be impervious, but never pervious.

See the problem? My mission is to bring back those words (yes, I'm assuming that for the negative form to exist, the positive did at some point. My Oxford English dictionary was left at Swarthmore, so I can't check that easily--and in fairness, it's the first time in years I've needed it)

I may start with T-shirts. I'm working on the visual today while I marinate in Vicks Vaporub. And thinking that if Springsteen would use the words in lyrics, usage would skyrocket. Gotta work on that, too.