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Humans Are Using Significantly Fewer Words Than They Did 20 Years Ago, Study Finds

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We're dealing with a loneliness epidemic and a literacy epidemic at the same time, so there is a bit of unfortunate logic to the news that, according to a team of researchers who published their findings in Perspectives on Psychological Science, the human race has spent two decades slowly whittling down the number of words […] The post Humans Are Using Significantly Fewer Words Than They Did 20 Years Ago, Study Finds appeared first on vice .

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