
Pioneers: Gretchen McCulloch talks about why we talk the way we do online
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Do We Have Inflation of Language?
There's a huge incentive for you to engage in behavior and linguistic styles that older people are going to find off putting. And i think a really illustrative example of this is with the exclamation mark. When your parents get facebook, maybe you don't want to be on facebook with your tine friends any more. That's really understandable. To stretch the inflation metaphor to its limits, like, if we have inflation of language, do we also see deflation of language? Ever, we do sometimes.
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