[Encore Episode] 160 How the Internet Is Changing Language (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) - Originally Published January 18, 2021
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The Internet Is Like the Modern Monk
Before the printing press, it's just as easy for anybody to produce more writing. And there's no one person that's like looking over your hand written stuff and being like, now you should spell it that way. The monks would write stuff, like, spell the same word differently in the same sentence. That's where you get the statardization of spelling. Human have been speaking raising ja toover tol te. Internet is trying to unfuck it.
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