NYT today has interesting article where even the OED gets on board with new web terms like lol and omg!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/techn ... h_20120506
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While I bemoan what may appear as the demise of the language, I still have hope that the future will prove brighter than it looks at present.
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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I bemoan not the Web and its bits and pieces. Rather it is the disintegration of grammatical communication I mourn.Perry Lassiter wrote:But it was the web that brought me the article! And Facebook the next post!
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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