Oh, I would so-o like to know who did it and why.
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In the fifteenth century the printing press brought widespread access to knowledge that had previously been reserved for the elite.
Later, the development of the telegraph, the telephone, radio and television provoked predictions of doom.
Now mobile phones and the Internet are underpinning another massive change in our language.
Not everyone is happy to see these changes. But I am. I love words and I’m agog to see how they change and adapt to the realities of twenty-first century life. I hope you’re visiting this blog because you feel the same.
In the fifteenth century the printing press brought widespread access to knowledge that had previously been reserved for the elite.
Later, the development of the telegraph, the telephone, radio and television provoked predictions of doom.
Now mobile phones and the Internet are underpinning another massive change in our language.
Not everyone is happy to see these changes. But I am. I love words and I’m agog to see how they change and adapt to the realities of twenty-first century life. I hope you’re visiting this blog because you feel the same.
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5 comments:
I'd like to think that someone changed the spelling as a sign of affection.
Sign of affection. Where do I come up with these?
There's some strong emotion behind it, I think. I hope were not too romantic in thinking it was affection, or even love, to state it more strongly.
It's the sort of thing that would inspire a writer. By the way, I'm reading your novel. Just haven't commented yet. I'm enjoying it.
uh, you missed an apostrophe there.
That's funny, about the missing apostrophe! My sister noticedt it and I was going to surreptitiously alter it, but I guess I've been found out now, so I'll have to do it openly.
Whoops, just realised I don't know how to change comments, so I guess that missing apostrophe will have to stand. In future centuries, when the apostrophe is extinct in English, they might admire me as being ahead of my times.
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