NewSpeak
By Lucine Kasbarian
Two Essayettes
Our English word for writing derives from the Proto-Germanic “writan,” which means to tear or scratch.
I never learned to type
It has become very difficult to evoke the feel of that lost time. It is not just the demise of the typewriter or the phone booth: libraries have lost the sanctity with which our sense of a civil free culture imbued them.