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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. The other

night I went to a performance at a theater here in San Diego and a few minutes

before the lights went down I thought well I'll check in on Facebook and

see if I can connect with people here.

And so I got all absorbed in doing that, and then I glanced up,

and I realized that every single person in my immediate proximity

was all absorbed in looking at their smartphones.

And I just thought there's something wrong with that.

You know, I mean, here's this communal situation and we're all staring at our phones.

And the next day we got an email from Gina Conte

she's in Santa Monica California she had the very same experience and she

coined a word that she'd like to popularize it's Tech-gather together you know we're all

tech-gat-gat-tether in this situation where we're all these little human silos you know

and next to each other communing with somebody in a device but not the people sitting next to you.

Exactly, a little glowing screen.

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