(February 16, 2016 at 7:43 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 16, 2016 at 7:40 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: However I've seen the point being made by some people that it's a mere evolution of the written word, if you wish, and that it's not necessarily bad.
There's evolution and devolution. And then there's George Orwell and newspeak.
The Orwell reference is meant to point out that while we don't necessarily always like change, we're not always meant to stifle it, either?
I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to argue how this is an instance of devolution.