Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

In an oral culture, language evolves rapidly but large-scale dissemination of innovations is hard. Mass literacy lets linguistic changes spread rapidly, but the nature the printing industry is to induce linguistic conservatism (style guides etc) and slow change. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 28, 2022

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Linguistic inflation — "bro" going from evoking a pretty specific archetype to becoming a very vague "man I don't like" — is extremely common in human society and seems to happen faster than ever thanks to the internet. See also "woke" on the other side. — PolitiTweet.org

Where did the term “tech bro” come from? In my exposure to lots of people and ways of life, I find people in the te… https://t.co/lJTaRRE02t

Posted Dec. 28, 2022

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Contemporary writing (tweets, texts, DMs, macro text on Instagram images or TikTok videos) has taken on the plasticity of oral culture while supercharging the broad distribution of print. Very innovative linguistic landscape where it's hard for words to retain meaning. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 28, 2022