RE: Richard Dawkins Suggests Feminists May Have Caused His Stroke
February 16, 2016 at 8:04 pm
(This post was last modified: February 16, 2016 at 8:04 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(February 16, 2016 at 7:53 pm)abaris Wrote:(February 16, 2016 at 7:50 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: I think you'd be pretty hard-pressed to argue how this is an instance of devolution.
Because, if speech gets more primitive, people follow suit. It's the highway to resort to grunts again, with all the meaning they carry. Now, that's not language, that's an abomination.
But, abaris, you're exagerating. The fact is, these are adjustments made exclusively because of and for web interactions, something we didn't have in the past. As our mediums change, so do our modes of expression. Hash-tags are needed in some environments for efficiency. Emojis help sometimes convey emotions where you couldn't otherwise. An author who includes any emojis and hashtags in his book is not using them properly. They are for conversations taking place in real time between two or more people via the internet.