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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by Exoristos on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:40PM (#38040736)
*grammar
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by passion__desire on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:00PM (#38040995)
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

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