As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution.
  • blindsight@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I love articles like this, that make me think about things in new ways. Of course Word templates changed the norms of business communication. How could they not? Yet that never would have occurred to me if I hadn’t read this.

    Trust the BBC to call them out on Americanizing and homogenizing language globally, too. (Did you notice the American spellings in the last sentence?)