“Language is a virus from outer space’ said William S Burroughs. Performance artist Laurie Anderson brought this saying to a wider audience with her 1986 song Language is a Virus. Language is always evolving. We certainly don’t speak the same English as did Chaucer or Shakespeare. We don’t even use words in the same way as we did a decade ago. This about it. When we say “tablet”, “piracy”, “spam, “thread”, and a host of other words, what pictures form in your mind? Probably not the same pictures that did when you were a child. Even the terms we use in the industry such as “contact”, “glass”, and “progressive” have evolved over our lifetime…no? Here is an infographic from the folks at Lebara that take a look at how the digital online world has changed our language.
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