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Seeing a recent blog post that included a series of names in which commas did not separate the names prompted me to wonder if text messaging, email, and blogging have become the new orality. Oral speech is not completely without punctuation–emphasis, pauses, pitch, and the like help convey meaning. So, to those who are favorably disposed towards them, do emoticons in computer communications. Oral speech is our most spontaneous use of language and, to a Romantic sensibility, is “the real language of men,” as Wordsworth acclaimed in his 1800 “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads. immediate informal structured but Ø necessarily artfully arranged 4 effect evanescent

I certainly don't have answers to these questions. But information professionals, especially librarians with our heritage of preserving both “high” culture and popular culture, should play a leading role in devising answers.