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By Nigel Wigmore

James Joyce, as I recall, predicted the chopping up of the English language. This avant-garde novelist had a fair crack at it himself in works such as Ulysses.

But hasn’t Joyce’s prediction proved correct, firstly in the short-form language that advertisers have thrust upon an unsuspecting world and latterly in the visual “Morse Code” of text messaging?

So certain words are shortened, distended, discarded and re-invented and long may this be part of our culture. Continue reading →