Text in the 21st Century

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Permalink Reply by Jacqui Murray on July 31, 2009 at 1:40pm

That's kind of like trying to define 'language' when we're speaking of paleo-words uttered maybe (or maybe not) by our earliest ancestors (pre-writing but post-Wernicke's area of the brain). Is language just the spoken word, or does it include body language, facial gestures, inflections?

So to text--is it just the black-and-white leximes and phonemes of language, that must be transcribed to be understood. Or does it include 'communication'--pictures, emoticons, acronyms more easily understood by all?

Great question. I hope someone has an answer!

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