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You're listening to A Way with Words, the show about language language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett

I want to share a passage from a new book that I really love is by a college professor who's describing bringing his children for a visit to campus.

He writes,

On the ground floor of my office building, I'm pointing out the details of a wall map to my children.

The bell rings, classes let out.

I mutter an easy prediction.

Watch this.

Everyone will stare at their phones.

Students amble into the hallway.

One meanders towards us, bumps into me,

recalibrates her trajectory without looking up,

and continues her roomba-like text walking. I love that room-like text walking. I've seen

that I've been there. Both the little robot vacuum and and the people walking

around looking at their phones and just kind of like gently bumping into walls people and

you know it's all very jumping around to walls and people and furniture and you know it's all very

careful but still divided attention.

Right right I was gonna say it, sort of oblivious yet aware at the same time.

But before the phones, you know, it was not uncommon to see people doing this.

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