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.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why did you link this article but when you post comics you remove all reference to the comic writer? Why didn't you just rip all the text from the article and post it?

[–] 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."