“When was the last time you saw a person stop and think on television?”
The seamy side of semiotics
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: May 25, 2008
The New York Times
“Electronic communication has whisked us into a third phase of compression: the Age of Shortspeak. As we listen and watch replays of multicasts to suit our scheduling convenience, those above-mentioned interminable, bor-r-ing four-second pauses are edited out. Humanizing uh, er, ah, um moments of meaningless vamping are pitilessly erased; even the dramatist’s “pregnant pause” has been digitally aborted…”
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