There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
“We’ll talk about it, it’s on the list. Right after ending daylight savings and rounding up all the brown people”
*daylight saving. No “s” at the end.
That’s the neat part about language, people change it over time. Most people I know use the “s” at the end.
Interestingly our society as it is with “standardized” versions of the language seem to slow down natural changes. Every person could call something Xs but the official documents will always just say X.
I’ve been to towns where everyone living there calls it a shortened version, but all the legal documents call it by the full name. Including all maps and postal addresses. No one that actually lives there would call the town that. In the past eventually the maps would just change.
I agree, virtually the only way words are allowed to be created in modern english other than through extremely viral pop culture is by making acronymns and I am getting really tired of it (g.r.t.o.i. for short).
I honestly think the prevalence of autocorrect and word suggestion/replacement is harmful to the evolution of language, it severs words from the past and future and keeps them suspended in a snapshot of time. I mean sure these tools are great but especially because text emojis became popularized as a system where emojis present differently depending on what kind of chat app you are using (iphone vs android chat apps) I think it has really damaged the ability to convey context in brief text messages.
This isn’t a hypothetical worry, I find it a very common shared experience with others that texting and interpreting texts can be exhausting because the rigid autocorrect way of communicating dissects the nuance of written language into hermetically sealed and frozen pieces that can only attempt a fascimile of life. This isn’t anywhere near as much a problem with longer written language as nuance naturally develops in the broader scope.
I don’t know, I grew up with Aol Instant Messenger and texting on phones without prevalent autocorrect, without even keyboards it was all t9 texting and there was a rich language of shorthand that most language people hated from the start and it saddened me even back then. For me it was exciting to be a part of the written english language developing shorthand slang to imbue short brief text communications with more context and to indicate formality or lack of it for the benefit of the reader.
I am not some purist, I don’t advocate for anything radical like everyone should stop using autocorrect/word suggestion. I don’t use autocorrect at all myself but that is just a personal thing because I find it especially annoying when computers try to guess what I am thinking, but I do think it is worth considering how we can breathe more life back into the medium of brief text messages as despite how people often claim it is fundamentally inhuman, nothing could be farther from the truth.
We let the medium of short written english language become inhuman by applying rigid conceptions of language to an evolving thing, we tried to police the creativity instead of listen to it and these are the natural consequences.
I think one very effective solution is emojis but again there is the insane choice to structure emojis as a communication system where you have no idea what the symbol you are sending will look like to the person seeing the symbol on the other end. It is insane, and it undermines the ability to enrich short bits of text with emojis to convey emotion and nuance unless everybody in a conversation is part of the same corporate silo (and what invisible distorting impact does that then have on us…?).