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The Digital Divide: Some Reflections, Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.
The Digital Divide: Some Reflections, Stephen Paul Foster Ph.D.
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One of the many remarkable impacts of the Internet on our social lives has been its shaping of our language. A spontaneously evolving Internet-argot has relentlessly and conspicuously intruded itself into everyday life. The activities and circumstances of a people "on-line" are now described by an array of powerful and colorful metaphors that capture the spirit of a new, robust technology. We find ourselves often conversing casually and unselfconsciously in an idiom that would have been incomprehensible only a few short years ago. We do, indeed, talk differently now.
One Internet-spawned expression that seems to have achieved common linguistic currency …