Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover) by Gretchen McCulloch

from mykl-s

I'm content to use the internet in ways that make sense to me. If I really wanted to understand its language, McCulloch would be a great guide. I still follow her newsletters, four years later.

from pivic

This is as much a guide into the world of how living with internet—and all device-interconnected glories around it—has changed language and the ways in which we think, as it is a linguistic analysis into how language has become intertwined with internet. An example of when digital communications ...

from Herenya

I've followed the author's linguistics Tumblr for years. This book was fascinating and entertaining. I have a tendency to read non-fiction in a very piecemeal fashion but I read this one in a day. It was informative when it came to things I didn't know, and unexpectedly validating when it came to...

from spinsterrevival

What a fascinating listen; the author read the audiobook, and she did a great job. I sometimes feel like an internet newbie even though I'm so old, but there's a lot of stuff I've somehow missed out on. It was really fun to remember where my internet life started, and it's so interesting to hear ...

from arewenotben

This was excellent, an extremely well researched and optimistic study of how language develops (and has developed) on the internet. Found the generational differences particularly interesting. Probably the only book to examine the linguistic rules of an excited keyboard mash.