Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-27604892-20160113183401/@comment-4091815-20160119211941

You need to stop reading the internet.

Newspapers started in Ancient Rome. Then the invention of the printing press caused an explosion of printed material and periodicals.

Newspapers are important to the conversation because, for more than a century, the majority of the printed words on the planet were seen in the form of newspapers. They dominated how the majority of people saw the language and, as with many similar cultural phenomena, changed the way people wrote and spoke to each other.

Just as Shakespeare's plays introduced new words to the language, Newspapers introduced a style and form to English grammar.

Television did the same thing and now now the internet and apps are doing the same thing.