"Twitter? That's completely useless," said the boss of the private bank, while on the floor below his new brilliant analyst was tweeting in amazement at the many faxes rolling in. When someone starts talking about the volatility of conversation these days, the most sensible thing to do is to confirm all the disasters.
Yes, indeed, Twitter is a pointless way of spending time. Tattoos are also ugly and disfiguring. And not only that, it also leads to an impoverishment of language use, as concluded by the English actor Ralph Fiennes last month. He complained about croatia phone number list the rise of the use of social networks, it would lead to a destruction of the English language. I read it, thanks to Twitter, in Forbes Magazine. Fiennes' greatest fear is that beautiful long words as they were used in the works of Shakespeare or the novels of PG Wodehouse are threatened with extinction.
Their use is so scarce that people will soon not even know what they mean. The dodo once became extinct, and no one now knows what the animal looked like. The same will happen to our beautiful vocabulary. A word that is not used on social media is threatened with extinction. And especially longer words would lose out, they are 'too expensive' for the short-winded pace of Twitter.