Which is ironic because prescriptivist ideologies generally act like writing is a more PURE form of communication. But for some reason spend all your time on the internet socializing that way and people will ask you “But don’t you get lonely?” and I’m all “I’m talking to people constantly geeze!”
This.
Sometimes I want a text-to-speech thingy for when I do have to talk. Unfortunately, the stigma would be bad enough if I was completely incapable of speaking. That I merely prefer typing* would probably make it worse.
(Also I’d need a portable gadget that could do text-to-speech. A lot of smartphones and tablets and such can do it, but I don’t have any of those.)
*I can speak using vocal cords and such. More or less. Most of the time the stuff that comes out even carries the same basic gist as what I intended to say.
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#that excuse for communication called speech #eateroftrees
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