http://muselog.com Seeds are the muse. Semillas de la mente en la matriz de tiempo. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:18:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://muselog.com/search-engines-will-change-the-english-language/ http://muselog.com/search-engines-will-change-the-english-language/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:12:17 +0000 laurei http://muselog.laurei.com/search-engines-will-change-the-english-language/ Before the printing press, spelling was not important. Shakespeare spelled his name using 5 out of 41 differing ways commonly used. When the movable type printing press was invented by Johann Guttenberg in 1450′s two things happened with language: the spelling of words, became set, and the many synonymous words used to convey a meaning became few, or in some cases just one. The internet has not changed this: there are thousands of new words coined every year to cover new ideas, but the old language has not changed – but they will.

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