The languages of today — with their grammatical rules, their irregularities, their pronunciations — are embedded into the very fabric of digital communication in the form of cheaply, eternally stored text, audio, and video.
Even in past eras when written language was ubiquitous, its distribution has never been as frictionless and widespread as it is today. Moreover, the internet doesn’t forget. The languages of today — with their grammatical rules, their irregularities, their pronunciations — are embedded into the very fabric of digital communication in the form of cheaply, eternally stored text, audio, and video.