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  • Blame Technology!

    While looking for something else, this morning I stumbled over a Business Wire story about a survey conducted by WhiteSmoke , a software developer specializing in writing and grammar tools: In the survey, adults were shown 20 words and asked to pick out the correct spelling. 'Calendar' was misspelled...
    Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 05-28-2008
  • The Age of High (Tech) Anxiety

    We live in times that some are calling The Age of Anxiety. This isn't surprising because the increase in the average person's anxiety levels over the past few decades is well documented. (One recent study found that anxiety levels today are higher than those of psychiatric patients from the 1950s...
    Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 10-26-2007
  • Filling the Gaps

    Technology is a language-generating machine. With letters, phonemes, prefixes, suffixes, and existing words as its raw materials, technology constantly manufactures shiny new acronyms, words, and phrases to describe its onrushing supply of new ideas, processes, and products. Yes, the nexus of electronics...
    Posted to Lingua Techna (Weblog) by Paul on 08-24-2007
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