Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy
by Exoristos on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:40PM
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*grammar
Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy
by passion__desire on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:00PM
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There was a question asked on Quora by a child to her mother, "Why haven't we used all the short words and gave them meaning before using all the long words?"
The simple answer, apart from historical origins of words is "error correction". It is far easier to error correct words which are far apart in spelling and audio space.
relevant : https://youtu.be/AZX6awZq5Z0?t=3107
In my early experience of social media, people were criticized for not writing correct English. That is almost gone. Infact, now people realize that people belonging to different backgrounds can't be expected to perform in one particular context. There is reverse sort of meme, where non-natives are celebrated for writing perfect English. Similarly, there was debate on how to actually spell Quran or Koran etc. Now people understand the intention behind the words rather than actual grammer or spelling. It takes time for higher level of ideas to percolate social media.