“Plastic words are not new in how they look but in how they are used. They have been fashioned for the purpose of laying down…
“Plastic words are not new in how they look but in how they are used. They have been fashioned for the purpose of laying down the tracks and outlining the routes of a civilization that is covering the globe with gathering speed. Their origins can no longer be discerned. They resemble one another. It is as though there were a place somewhere in the world where these words were being released at intervals, as though at an unknown place there existed a factory releasing them complete from its assembly line, or as if they were coming into being simultaneously in many different places.”— Uwe Pörksen, Plastic Words: The Tyranny of a Modular Language