New comment by ifonlywecould in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

ifonlywecould — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:08:16 +0000

I believe that is a more recent phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Third_New_Internat...

New comment by ifonlywecould in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

ifonlywecould — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:26:08 +0000

Is it possible that the inherent inefficiency of handwriting in recording information is what facilitates cognitive development? Writing information by hand requires the writer to parse the information being written and become skilled in understanding the most important aspects of the information to write since it is impractical to handwrite everything verbatim as it comes to mind.

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New comment by ifonlywecould in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"

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