"PMI Increases"... the headline. A quick read of the two page article lent no further information as to what this would mean to me, although it was very, very important to many others.
In the army, I learned some basic Esperanto, but it has ill prepared me to cope with our new language.
Take a quick look at just one of the ways our intrapersonal communications has changed... for the most part, just in the past 20 years.
50 Popular Texting Abbreviations & Internet Acronyms — Explained
This represents only a tiny part of the change that is challenging us as octogenarians.
Not only abbrviations, but the seemingly endless number of acronyms.
Abbreviations and acronyms dictionary
All of this in addition to the nearly 500,000 words in the Webster Dictionary... to which nearly 2000 words are added each year.
Now... add to this basic list of the means that we communicate with others who speak the same (sic) language... the alternate languages and keywords that some of us have learned in school or through work, and it presents a formidable tower of Babel:
Even more interesting, consider what is going on in the learning process of a child, an immigrant, or a mentally challenged person.
As a rule, we absorb, learn, and adapt to the changes, but the growing insouciance of those who provide news. instruction, and basic information of all kinds, may well be responsible for a degree of fragmentation in our ever more complicated society.
Just an old man rant.
In the army, I learned some basic Esperanto, but it has ill prepared me to cope with our new language.
Take a quick look at just one of the ways our intrapersonal communications has changed... for the most part, just in the past 20 years.
50 Popular Texting Abbreviations & Internet Acronyms — Explained
This represents only a tiny part of the change that is challenging us as octogenarians.
Not only abbrviations, but the seemingly endless number of acronyms.
Abbreviations and acronyms dictionary
All of this in addition to the nearly 500,000 words in the Webster Dictionary... to which nearly 2000 words are added each year.
Now... add to this basic list of the means that we communicate with others who speak the same (sic) language... the alternate languages and keywords that some of us have learned in school or through work, and it presents a formidable tower of Babel:
(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
Even more interesting, consider what is going on in the learning process of a child, an immigrant, or a mentally challenged person.
As a rule, we absorb, learn, and adapt to the changes, but the growing insouciance of those who provide news. instruction, and basic information of all kinds, may well be responsible for a degree of fragmentation in our ever more complicated society.
Just an old man rant.