Social Media Broke Slang. Now We All Speak Phone.

Social Media Broke Slang. Now We All Speak Phone.

«When everyone talks like me, I make the mistake of believing that everyone is like me.» Interesting essay on how social media has streamlined language and how this means we’re losing markers of identity where we most need them, in written communication on the web.


From Weekly Filet #496, in July 2024.

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