Re:Why Has Language Changed So Much So Fast? ‘Because Internet’
by b0b10101 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @08:21AM
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I heard the same podcast and the argument is actually the same as this line from the article:
"“One type of writing hasn’t replaced the other,” McCulloch writes, taking care to emphasize that the situation between formal language and internet language isn’t zero-sum."
It's just that The Economist made this division much more explicit, and used it as the basis for their argument while the NYT relegates it to a single line at the end of the article...
"“One type of writing hasn’t replaced the other,” McCulloch writes, taking care to emphasize that the situation between formal language and internet language isn’t zero-sum."
It's just that The Economist made this division much more explicit, and used it as the basis for their argument while the NYT relegates it to a single line at the end of the article...