[tehchromic]

I find this absolutely fascinating, especially in the context of emergent technology. One could speculate: will persistent interactive mass media platforms eliminate or vastly reduce the rate of word replacement? Or will they accelerate it? A competent linguist might be able to give a good opinion but even so it seems debatable. Maybe linguistic change is contingent on the sorts of traumatic cultural divisions that were commonplace before the advent of global culture and technology, or maybe language changes more when more people talk to each other. Is language change accidental and traumatagenic or creative and intentional?