A world pervaded by language. I grew up with comic books showing newsboys on the corner like this one in Gotham or Metropolis:
That's how people got the word, from their local newspaper delivered at home or the newsboy shouting his Big City version of "Extra" with the latest hot-off-the-press crisis or scandal!
It's still true, but it's not the boy at the corner "purveying" his newspapers. It's the TV, it's the computer "pervading" our lives, our purses, our pockets with language on every size screen imaginable: "Wuxtry! Wuxtry!" they proclaim.
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