Ben Percifield
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Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
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Every speaker is learning how to write exquisite layers of social nuance that we once reserved for speech, whether we mark them by switching alphabets, switching languages, or respelling word." p.57
The strong form of the theory is called linguistic determinism and says that language determines thoughts.
The weak form is called linguistic relativity and says that language influences thought.
"Context collapse": the issue of not having a platform unique to them (to avoid overlap with parents, coworkers, etc.) While they have always been online, they may or may not have other tech skills.
But then again, she said, few could have predicted the endurance of the slang word “cool” as a marker for all things generally good or fashionable. Researchers say it emerged nearly a century ago in the 1930s jazz scene, retreated from time to time over the decades, but kept coming back.