Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Hey I'm Ben, brand strategist by day web3 experimentoooor by night. Not really a hat guy but metaphorically wears many hats
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
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.
This is a presentation on the book, just the tip of the iceberg if you're interested in more :)