Certainly when it comes to computer software causing language to change far outside the sphere of computing terms, TikTok takes the cake, with words like "unali

Certainly when it comes to computer software causing language to change far outside the sphere of computing terms, TikTok takes the cake, with words like "unalive" joining the real-world lexicon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospe... is a fascinating read for those unfamiliar with Gen Z jargon. But the OP article briefly raises an interesting point by way of linking to and quoting https://www.jstor.org/stable/40171308 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40171308 : > Analysis of the screen recording data revealed that students were more apt to make microstructural rather than macrostructural changes to their work and that they continuously revised at all stages of their writing. The idea that we can easily make non-append-only changes to our text simply by moving a mouse or trackpad may very well change how we think about language. A less severe version, perhaps, of the phenomenon in the movie Arrival and Ted Chiang's novella Story of Your Life (highly worth a read, and easily accessible with a quick search), where learning an alien language changes a person's entire outlook on - well, to minimize spoilers, every aspect of how life is lived. Perhaps, insofar as I typed the word "perhaps" after I wrote the rest of the forthcoming sentence... we already live in a world where something like this has transpired.