SGU COMMUNITY Livestream // Friday January 14th 2022
Added 2022-01-14 17:52:52 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iEDX7MueNM&ab_channel=TheSkepticsGuide
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Steve's favorite apple is honeycrisp? Unsubscribed!
REO Jackwagon
2022-01-16 01:09:46 +0000 UTCThat essentially is what many words are, efficient communication. Take defenestrate: to push out a window. (Think about a society that needs such a word. Remember Braveheart?) Stephen Fry's podcast series The Great Leap Years is related in that we try to produce more through working less, efficiency. Is there any reason that this can't apply to words or any other aspect of human existence?
Asymetra
2022-01-15 10:51:05 +0000 UTCYes. And also human communication will tend to become more efficient over time. IMNSHO, abbreviations used in text communication didn’t come about because of laziness. Our brains are simply hardwired to make communication flow as smoothly as possible.
RawkGWJ
2022-01-15 10:44:38 +0000 UTCI worked with a guy who would use the Dvorak keyboard. Whenever he used a computer with the QWERTY layout (basically, any but his own), he would change the keyboard layout in the settings, type what he wanted, then change the setting back for the next person. Despite the pervasive Boomer gripe, economics, not laziness, drove the use of shortcuts and abbreviations in communication. Shortcuts were used in telegram transmissions that were paid for by the word. The more you could say with the fewest words saved on costs. Books were written with numbercodes that were used by companies. I think they talk about this in the book Freakonomics.
Asymetra
2022-01-15 10:17:28 +0000 UTCManchego!
shawn vandekerkhove
2022-01-14 22:31:13 +0000 UTC
