An unsigned reader writes "This is an interesting article about how transistors is shaping the English language, which touches on the fate of the current crop of (sometimes silly) tech-inspired words, and anticipates an increased blurring of the line between the written and spoken word. tutor



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at the School of Linguistics and English Studies at the health center of Bangor, says, 'This kind of ludicity [linguistic playfulness] is very gorgeous for a while. People keep it going and then it sort of falls out of use. Exactly how long it will go on for is unclear but it's like any game, any novelty, any linguistic novelty — I can't see it lasting. If you look back 10 years ago to the kind of clever-clever things that were going on in the 1990s — MUDs and MOOs — all the early game strategies and lots of very interesting talk lineaments coming up as people tried to develop a style of parlance that would suit the technology. Well, that technology's history now and the style has gone with it.'"

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