keyboardschism
/ˈkiːbɔːdˌskɪzəm/nounVerified NewThe widening divergence between how people write and how they speak, to the point of functioning as two registers of one personality.
Typed language has evolved its own grammar of tone, and spoken aloud the same sentences would be unintelligible or alarming. The schism runs through a single person.
Etym. — keyboard + schism — a split within speakers, not between them.
Rel. — feedaccent · ellipsiscline
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