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[Encore Episode] 160 How the Internet Is Changing Language (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) - Originally Published January 18, 2021

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Have the Platforms Changed the Way People Communicate?

Early chat rooms were started as a multi player on line roll playing games. People would get together and play dungeons, as in dungeons and dragons,. And that seems to be one of the early sources for people narrating themselves in the third person. What do you think some of the most influential online communities have been for changing how we communicate? Who's come up with some of theMost pervasive slang or jargon?

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