Marginalia

Notes from careful study of technology, language, and learning.

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• "Shape," "Table Stakes," and Other Borrowed Words: Is AI Changing How We Talk? October 25, 2026

  I keep hearing LLM vocabulary in conversations where no model is in the room. What the research shows about language change, and why I don't think the machines will flatten how we talk.

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