http://blog.ted.com/2008/10/28/a_3minute_fairy/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Sat, 25 May 2013 21:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2008/10/28/a_3minute_fairy/comment-page-1/#comment-990 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2008/10/a_3minute_fairy/#comment-990 Once again, Rives does a magnificent job of taking our assumptions about language and standing them on their heads. We tend to forget that language is a living, growing, changing thing, holding on to the familiar forms even after they are no longer useful. Movable type has existed for centuries; typewriters for more than a hundred years; why are emoticons such a recent development? What new forms of expression will the next 20 years bring?

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