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While really useful now, I'm afraid that in the long run it might accelerate the language atrophy that is already happening. I still remember that people used t
by ArekDymalski 6mo ago
While really useful now, I'm afraid that in the long run it might accelerate the language atrophy that is already happening. I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google and write SMS with capital letters, commas and periods.
- vova_hn2 6mo ago> I still remember that people used to enter full questions in Google I think that, in the early days of internet search, entering full questions actually produced worse results than just a bunch of keywords or short phrases. So it was a sign of a "noob", rather than a mark of sophistication and literacy.
- jagged-chisel 6mo ago“Sophistication and literacy” are orthogonal to the peculiarities of a black box search engine. Those literate sophisticates would still be noobs at getting something useful from Google.
- dahart 6mo agoMy kids made fun of me yesterday when they saw me using a question mark in a search query.