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Sliding Into Silence? We Are Speaking 300 Daily Words Fewer Every Year (www.futurity.org)
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Research.

In a society increasingly shaped by self-checkouts, GPS navigation, and touchscreen ordering kiosks, new research shows face-to-face conversation may be quietly fading.

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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

Y'all underestimating how much I mutter to myself.

Granted, half of that are four swear words over and over, but you're counting total words spoken, not unique words spoken.