Authenticity in language is essential to bioethics. The articulation and exchange of ideas should faithfully reflect the thoughts, beliefs, values and methods of reasoning of interlocutors. Word processing and related technologies provide powerful means to disseminate knowledge and broaden the discussion. These technologies also have the potential to steer the use of language in directions conventional or trendy. As text is increasingly digitized, formalized, and standardized to render its information easily searchable and widely distributable, care is need to ensure that the rules that organize digital communication do not adversely constrain the meaning of language that shapes normal human discourse.