It’s interesting to take a step back and notice our close relationship with our computers, these days.

“.. people offer more accurate and complete information about themselves when filling out questionnaires using a computer than when completing the same form on paper or through a face-to-face interview. The differences were especially marked when the information at issue was personally sensitive.”

A quote from Alphabet to E-mail: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading – a book by linguist Dr. Naomi Baron, a professor of Linguistics at American University, Washington, D.C. In it, Baron explores the history of the English language in written form, and considers how it has evolved through its history, ending with an evaluation of the state of the English language today, and how the Internet and the use of email and text messaging has affected it.