[ExI] language patch

[BillK]

On 5/29/07, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > I just found it amusing that I'd reached that stage when so many
> > people here were infants. Hard to conceive the gulfs of mutual
> > incomprehension opening up as humans go emortal...
>
> that may become one of the remaining sources of novelty as full-time
> consumers outpace full-time producers' ability to generate (churn out)
> "newness."
>
> The increasing gulf may also put those who would have otherwise
> considered themselves far apart comparably closer in outlook.


'newness'  ?????
Britain's most popular TV soap opera has been running for 47 years!
And it is still around the top of the TV ratings.
<http://www.answers.com/topic/coronation-street>

What people will accept as 'new' does not require much novelty.


BillK