Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language is not strictly necessary, and proposes no radical education reforms -- he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful.
So at least there's a hypothetical model which would say these laudatory poems describing princess's beautiful eyes and roseate lips and all the conventions of court poetry and so on.
Thank you for your warm welcome, for this beautiful weather, your gracious hospitality, and Your Majesty's nearly seven decades of treasured friendship with the United States of America.