We’re just using them to acknowledge each other’s presence.īut sometimes these rituals change, and sometimes they change because of new technologies.
It doesn’t actually matter what the words are. This is from a chapter of McCulloch’s book about the nature of conversation, where she covers the term “phatic expression.” A phatic expression is a sort of conversational ritual: how are you, what’s up, how’s it going. This book has enough cool word origins in it to sustain six months of Word Suitcase, but I’m just going to talk about one here and encourage you all to read Because Internet for the rest of them.
I have spent most of this week reading Gretchen McCulloch’s brilliant exploration of how language is used on the internet, Because Internet.
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