But online, it’s not always so easy. If it’s online and asynchronous — meaning you post on Twitter and I reply on Twitter — then it’s not the norm to go back and check with you what each word meant. Normally, people just interpret it however they want, which leads to what we call a context collapse, that the intended audience and the audience that actually reply to it is different. So the reply person carries their own context with it.

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