Writing by hand and spelling will be a lost art in about 20 years. Mobile phones have predictive text. My language partners say they don't remember how to write some not too obscure characters because they are used to typing in the pinyin and having the computer/phone give them a selection of characters.
It will be a sad day when word processors also start to use predictive text and the language used will shrink to include mostly that which the computer thinks you want to use. (Maybe it will create sentences like that last one. Awful.)
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