Comment Re:They don't realise language changes. (Score 1) 838
Obviously you don't subscribe to technological relativism/determinism, but the medium has everything to do with what the message contains. You don't write detective novels on papyrus for a reason.
Detective novels require a printing press and cheap paper because you read them once, and you need many of a lot of them to sustain a market. That is why the detective novel is a 19th century invention.
You can argue that the computer won't fundamentally change the way we use the English language, but it will change it because it already has, just as paper changed English from its use on parchment, and just as pulp based paper allowed for detective novels to arise; a genre with its own subculture and language that is associated with it.
"The medium is the message."