Benjamin Dreyer: why English is changing faster than you can say E-mail, e-mail, email | Curio

Benjamin Dreyer: why English is changing faster than you can say E-mail, e-mail, email

6 mins | Aug 22, 2022

Random House's executive managing editor and copywriter. For years, the World Wide Web’s arrival created a wild-west for words, but things are relaxing as tech has infiltrated our every day. Looking back at this era, Benjamin Dreyer explores how the journey of decapitalized tech nouns reflects the eternal tension between maintaining standards and encouraging new growth in language.

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