Tweet, web, cloud: technology transforms meaning of nature words

31.07.2019

Usage changes from describing outdoors to depicting digital life in just one generationTweet, web, stream and cloud may once have evoked the wild outdoors, but they are now predominantly used to describe technology, according to new linguistic research.A study of datasets of informal conversations from different decades has found that the implied meaning of some common nature words in Britain has almost completely changed in a single generation. Continue reading...

Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/31/tweet-web-cloud-technology-transforms-meaning-of-nature-words

Zdroj: The Guardian

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