I suppose you could say today’s word is a hard one to be tired of. But, I think it’s just that I belong to the last generation of the non-natives who live this hyperconnected life as much as a non-native can.
Internet – Sigh. I wonder if in the late 19th century, everything was about telegraph still or was it finally accepted by then. When will be stop talking about the ‘Internet’ as much as we’ve stopped talking about the phone network, the telegraph network, the electricity network? When does the Internet stop being a place and we start talking about what we do in terms of verbs. I am pretty sure my kids will have no separate concept of what the Internet is.
You can review all my previous ‘Tired Words’ here on this page.
