Well, that isn’t too hard is it? A quick way to keep up with your Français und Deutsch is to read people’s deepest darkest secrets on PostSecret’s international blogs.
This is a safe space. We’re all language nerds here. Here’s what English sounded like before it got all mixed up into Latin.
Do we still remember what those are? By our own estimation, the last time we sent anything in the U.S. mail system was during college application season 6 years ago. But that doesn’t count.
TechCrunch shines the spotlight on Stephen Elliot of The Rumpus, a popular eclectic literary website. When Elliot realized that he misses letter writing, he started this new subscription program called Letters in the Mail. For 5 bucks a month, you get a cool throwback to the days when we sent letters. Actual letters. He’s enlisted the help of people you know like Marie Calloway, Margaret Cho, Sari Botton, and a bunch of others to send you a letter “almost every week.” Dave Eggers is an upcoming letter writer too.
Why bother?
“When someone reads a letter it’s generally the only thing they’re doing,” Elliott says. “They give it [their] full attention. When someone reads an email they’re often reading it on their phone while boarding a bus.”
We blog. We email. We tweet. We update.
But we shall certainly look into this slow-writing phenomenon.