21.407 computing's effects on popular language?

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 407.
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         Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:51:55 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: computing's effects on popular language

Two examples (not from cognitive science) of how intimately computing
has affected the language we use:

(1) an advert on a bus for some insecticide that would "debug" your house;
(2) an unsolicited e-mail promising to change my "male device size".

The latter of these is grist for Ian Hacking's latest mill, for which
see "Our Neo-Cartesian Bodies in Parts", Critical Inquiry 24 (Autumn
2007): 78-105.

Other examples? Until now I thought that scanning the spam I get was
without its rewards. I now know differently.

Yours,
WM

Willard McCarty | Professor of Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).
Received on Tue Dec 11 2007 - 02:13:36 EST