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Children often give us little clues to many paradoxes here in life. But we're not susceptible enough for their clever signals.

Once, when I was at the zoo, I heard my litttle son saying: "mom, look at that crocodile! It is idle and ugly, not like in my computer-game." After a while, he refused going to the zoo entirely.

That made me think: my son (who is very fond of animals) is bored, he thinks nothing of these fine animals and their landscape any more, because the colours and the lively animation on his computer game are far more exciting.

My question is: if we see things through the prism of other things, and judge accordingly, then computers have the power to give us another dimension or perspective on our world, or? If so, then the language people use when writing on computers might also affect the way we look on language outside of the computer, right? Is that going to affect language and communication, in the long term?

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