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“Feels like rain,” Bobby said, behind the wheel of his Mustang as he motored toward the group home. “There’s a few drops on my windshield.”
Bobby couldn’t feel the rain inside his car but I didn’t think his choice of words that unusual. As long as the message was conveyed, most people weren’t particular about the language they used. Was it a dumbing down of society; a pattern accelerated by texting where words were condensed for the speed of communication, spelled phonetically or reduced to acronyms? I recalled a particular dinner conversation where I jumped on Kevin, telling him he would lose his ability to spell the words if he always abbreviated them. He asked me when was the last time I did math by hand and didn’t use a calculator. Precisely, that was my point I retorted. Both he
