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Vitalik Buterin

Another linguistics note: Has anyone else noticed how eliding the subject (in this case "I") seems to have become more and more acceptable in English over the last 10 years? Wonder if anyone has written about this trend.

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also writing with lower case only became more popular

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Found this article. Think it’s called “left edge deletion” and is a type of pro-dropping https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/05/all-your-questions-about-pronoun-deletion-and-the-inexorable-death-of-the-universe-answered.html

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Interestingly, Latin and its closest descendants (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) make the subject pronoun optional because the conjugation of the verb makes it obvious. In French, which is also quite close to Latin, or English, which borrows ~80% of its words from Latin, pronouns have been non-optional until this trend

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Imo it’s because of the internet - character limits/low attention spans - linguistic convergence from various languages, cultures, styles converging in one ungoverned place (no defacto spell checks or ‘linguistic style laws’ are imposed on social media vs other writing mediums like academia, newspapers, etc)

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example of how language tends to organically evolve towards the simplest viable form but trajectory is slowed by grammar rules imposed through schooling e.g. German still has grammatical cases (genitive etc.) because rules institutionalized by Luther Bible (1534), while Dutch evolved to work only with prepositions

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Will write about it someday. Am busy rn

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Could be related to fact that to social media and text messaging natives, a certain “formality” can be considered a sign of aggression https://brands.wattpad.com/insights/the-new-rules-for-writing-for-gen-z-how-to-avoid-passive-aggressive-punctuation-and-other-lessons-from-an-internet-linguist?hs_amp=true

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Time management

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I do it. It’s a bad habit. I don’t know where I picked it up but, like passive voice, I try to edit it before sending. Like passive voice, it separates the the individual from the action in some way. I’m both guilty but not proud.

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@mattgarcia.eth

all languages evolve towards simplicity plus 'am' leaves no room for doubt that the speaker is 'i' (unlike 'is' and 'are') so it's all quite natural

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I have to consciously go back through emails frequently and add in I - sometimes it seems a little too off-hand. Lots of senior folks at Amex/Apple did this to “get to the point” in short emails.

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Yea. My theory is that typing too many “I” or “my” seems either too self-important, or not up to self-imposed laconic standards.

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@accountless.eth

eliding is a hard word for the english to accept tho unless they are 8th grade reading level and above i really believe the more complex synonyms we use the greater entropy and challenge to see from different perspectives not trolling

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I did notice When I was writing my book I read several style guides. I learned to keep an eye out for how many sentences begin with "I" (too many) It's a good cue to vary your writing Just removing the "I" is the easy way out 😂

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Not sure about the trend, but this is exactly the thing chatgpt always corrects me on

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Like somebody else mentioned I guess this is a function of character limits. From my experience is pretty rare and just because Elon does it doesn't mean it has reached the acceptable status.

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I think it has to do with the popularity of social media and specifically with the fact that people tend to use the conversational mode of a language on social platforms.

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