CC

I just came to the conclusion that my kid-brother probably doesn’t know or realise what CC stands for in an e-mail since it’s a pretty archaic term that is hardly ever used anymore. At least, not in the actual “carbon copy” meaning of the words. Pretty soon the abbreviation will become a word unto itself, and the original meaning of the abbreviation, and the original meaning of the abbreviation, become irrelevant. Language is organic, and evolves, even though I really don’t want it to, sometimes.

I had briefly considered telling my kid-brother that “bcc” stood for “braille carbon copy,” just to see how far the term would carry itself. I had imagined that in fifty years he and his people would be living in a commune, far from the rest of the world, in the Black forest, or in the Alps somewhere, shunning everyone who used the term “blind carbon copy” instead of “braille carbon copy.” I liked the idea. I also liked the idea of all the letters he’d write to the government of the EU and Microsoft, which by that time will be one and the same institution…