Lost for words! Proof we're losing the art of conversation as Britons using 20 per cent fewer words
They say the art of conversation is dead – and psychologists have found we now speak about 20 per cent fewer words every day than we did two decades ago.
We are losing more than 300 words from our daily conversations every day – equivalent to 120,000 words a year, a study reveals.
The biggest decline is among Gen Z, with major implications for the loneliness epidemic and how we communicate in the future, especially with the rise of AI.
Baffling - perhaps there are reasons why we don't listen to words as much we used to -
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On TV, spoken words are mostly so gabbled that I have to turn on subtitles and read them.
"psychologists have found we now speak about 20 per cent fewer words every day than we did two decades ago."
Don't fret. They are being replaced by shrugs and grunts and amerenglish because of the American entertainment industry's grip on the media.
decnine - it's good to hear that someone else does that! I don't watch TV but sometimes turn on YouTube subtitles when watching current affairs videos. No problem with old films though.
Jannie - although a shrug and a grunt are sometimes the only worthwhile response to the lunatic language we are sprayed with. Much of it doesn't even make sense.
That must be an AI spoof.
Compare with Max Headroom videos and sound recordings of Peter Sellers'
"Party Political Speech".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdpOjletnc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxBtGuu9BVE
How many depressed people were tipped over into suicide because of that audible and visible charisma vacuum?
Perhaps all the people walking in the streets gossiping on their phones with their friends are too 'talked out' to maintain conversations later?
Yes I hate that. And then in dramas the buggers play music across the dialogue. Hang 'em all.
Doonhamer - that's a good point, it must be an AI spoof, a real Prime Minister would never make the script so obvious. He's not a very good AI spoof though, could be much more convincing.
DJ - and because of the intensive phone use, perhaps they have begun to speak like predictive text, so their vocabulary is reduced to a more basic level.
dearieme - I switch off YT videos where the narrator has background music playing all the time. Some do it even where the narrator has a pleasant voice.
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