Back in our parents’ and grandparents’ day, the world, and our descriptions of it were pretty much, this or that. People were male or female, single or married, working or looking. For every trend, however, there is a counter-trend. In this case the counter-trend is toward the loss of specific meaning. Vocabularies are being simplified and distinctions being lost. At the extreme, thousands of years of language development are being erased as language is reduced to glyphs displayed on smartphones rather than cave walls.
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