Laurie Raymond
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Thank you for a much needed, thoughtful and thought-provoking piece! You didn’t speak of the reduction of the very scope of language that Twitter imposes, though I think it is implicit. But it deserves separate attention. One hundred forty characters is enough to do a lot of damage, but is nowhere near enough (unless you are a skilled poet) to contest memes in a way that is as memorable and engage-able as the memes themselves. The memes are like bullets or arrows in form of language. We lack shields, body armor,

and weapon-free zones of language in which expression must be put into sentences and paragraphs; where the logical and emotional structure of language is given scope to do its job.

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