As I wrote this title, I found myself stuck trying to decided between "fashion" and "fashioned." I went with my gut and settled on the one that seemed correct for no obvious reason. When I wrote the title, I was going to express my distaste for technology (namely Kindles and their kin and blogs) but I was suddenly struck with a more relevant idea. In the past twenty years, the surge of technology that has swept over the globe has exposed us to information in way that has never been seen before. The constant bombardment of advertisements and 'entertainment' has left us swimming in a sea of words in such a way that I believe it may have created changes in the language itself. (i.e. if I were to have experienced this "fashion" "fashioned" dilemma in text, I would have had considerably less trouble when writing my title.) In fact, language changes across, and sometimes even without, barriers is a subject that has recently interested me. If we are to believe Harold Bloom in his book, The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life, Shakespeare has been the most influential writer in the world. This could allow for a baseline reading per se to begin to evaluate language change on a global level.
While this idea might seem quite undeveloped (and rightly so) I will certainly post any updates that I manage to make over the semester with research into language change and Shakespeare.
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