Abstract:
Lots of people these days are panicking about the impending demise of language – the loss of reading, the invasion of the screens, the contracting of attention spans, the dumbing down of humanity. A recent novel by Alena Greadon, The Word Exchange, plays cleverly on this. An intelligent noir-ish thriller set in New York and at the Oxford dictionary headquarters in England, it places us about two years into a very plausible future where over-reliance on technology has dramatically loosened our grip on the language. Read it and chortle, nervously.
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