noncedo-culli

There are plenty of people reading Crime and Punishment today because they enjoy the plot and writing. If Crime and Punishment were published today, those people would still read it.

That book did it so well. I was convinced up until the end that the murderer was >!Dr Sheppard's sister!<

1. 17

2. Student

3. Yes. Probably the majority of books I read are from the 1700s, but there's a lot of modern books and even older books that I like as well.

4. Yes

5. I'm not sure. It seems logical that the Internet would spread slang faster than before, but even looking at older literature, you have changes in the language being used in literature that take place just as quickly as they do now; audiences in 1770s France found plays written in the 1720s just as old-fashioned and full of weird, stilted dialogue as a modern reader might find something written in the mid-1900s. I do think the Internet is having a big impact on literature, but moreso because it allows anyone to write books for people to read rather than because it's directly changing the language that writers are using.

6. I can't speak to emojis in books since I've never seen that, but afaik books have always used slang and abbreviations and illustrations