![]() ![]() Not to mention that is takes much longer to watch a video news story than read it in print. Even though Crabby produced television shows for more than two decades, she was keenly aware that pictures are an enhancement that are incapable of transmitting nuance and detail in a two- or even five-minute story. Nowadays, they've even removed cubicle dividers in favor of open space and shared tables, and as voice commands increasingly become the norm over typewriting and tapping, it's not just literacy that is in peril, but thought itself.Īnother development is the increased use online of video news reports without an accompanying print story. Yak, yak, yak as Crabby tried to bring clarity to her own and others' writing. ![]() ![]() Even before Crabby retired in 2004, cubicles had taken over and she, a writer and editor then, had been give a “cube” next to sales people on two sides of her who were on the phone all day. This loss seems to be progressing on several fronts beyond pictures replacing words.Ĭonsider the assault on thought, focus and concentration of the modern workplace. So far that hasn't happened but the loss of widespread literacy would have devastating effect on civilization. Nevertheless, she still worries that these two men are on to something.Ĭrabby knows that every generation, especially as it ages, believes the world, now run by younger generations, is going to hell in a handbasket. (Crabby would be more inclined to take Sutherland seriously, however, if he – a professor of modern English literature at University College London - did not have such a poor grasp of English language grammar.) Pfeiffer also quotes Professor John Sutherland on the subject: “'In the future, less words and letters will be used in messaging as pictures and icons take over the text speak language.'” This is not quite as many as the 66% of millennials, but it is still a huge percentage nonetheless.'” “However, when you look only at emotion, around 40% of baby boomers prefer emojis. She doesn't use them as extensively as many people (and she certainly does not have a “smart home” to command with them), but just by asking she can find out the weather forecast, set a timer, listen to radio or to music or order up the latest news to be read to her, or a book, add items to her grocery shopping list, check the instructions on a recipe while she is cooking and much more.Ĭalifornia entertainment lawyer, Jon Pfeiffer, reported recently on a Harris poll that asked people of varying ages if emoji communicate better than the written word: ”.36% of millennials said that emojis convey their thoughts and emotions better than traditional words. all of which often use more photos, video and emoji than words – it appears that the written word is in danger of disappearing.īefore she goes any further, let Crabby admit that since last January, she has owned two Amazon Echo devices – one re-gifted from a TGB reader who didn't want it and another that Crabby, who was amused by the first one, bought for the bedroom at the other end of her home. When you add Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterist, Snapchat, etc. Okay, maybe Crabby Old Lady is overstating it in that headline, but voice and and tiny little pictographs appear to be taking over human communication at the expense of the written word. ![]()
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