Comment 2S3E Re: Written form is in decline?

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Written form is in decline? (Score: 1)

by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-08-31 17:02 (#2RXY)

Is it? Just this week:
http://xkcd.com/1414/

Maybe it's just changing.

Re: Written form is in decline? (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-08-31 17:29 (#2RY2)

I hope you're right, but I'm skeptical. Check out the average post on Reddit, for example, or Youtube. Maybe those are outliers, but holy crapamoly...

Re: Written form is in decline? (Score: 2, Interesting)

by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-08-31 18:29 (#2RY3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

They're not outliers. But if there's 10x as much writing going on, there's 10x as much shit. But there's also 10x as much good stuff.

But I think that (xkcd author) Randall Munroe's premise is interesting, at least. Today's average young person is communicating with their peers in written form much more than probably any other. And not by just a small ratio. It's not likely we'll like the form any more than our parents like[d] our music -- but it doesn't change the fact that there's a whole lot of writing going on.

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