Spoken language is dying — with people saying about 30% fewer words than 20 years ago: study

America’s at a loss for words! Spoken language is dying, with people speaking about 30% fewer words a day than they did 20 years ago — fueling a “loneliness epidemic” of disconnected convenience-seekers, according to a new study and experts. Small talk is all but disappearing as the average person speaks 338 fewer word

From Tom Wolfe's "Me" decade of the 1970s, to the convenience economy of the 2020s, we're "me-maxxing" our time, and we're talking less as a result.