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And finally, to address the initial topic, I don't believe that people are getting smarter. Collectively, I think that our brightest are becoming dimmer, and language use is becoming ever-increasingly stagnated as fewer individuals seek to inject variety into their speech.
The internet is a wonderful thing, because forums such as these can act as a magnet for a very broad distribution of individuals, from those of different intelligence, to others of different social and economic standing. Any variety of social circles are at your finger tips if you will yourself exposed.
Gothic.net is fortunately blessed with a fairly constant base of intellect within its regular users. Those who do not enter "intelligent" tend to develop greatly over time. Even if it's just in how they spell their words, going from constant "lol" and other variations of net-speak to the more familiar and common English spellings. It's likely the theme of this website that attracts the intellects in the first place, and the rest are hopefully infected.
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...don't smother your kids."
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