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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[–] tychosmoose@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

I make coffee every morning for me and my partner. Used to say "coffee!"

After considering the wisdom of Kevin's "why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick?", I started pronouncing fewer of the sounds that make up the word. Eventually it became a quiet grunt. "Uh"

In the morning that still means coffee in our house.

Needless to say, if there are cognitive consequences of a reduced word count then "me dead."