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Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist. She offers readers a fascinating look into how the digital world shapes our communication. With her expertise and engaging style, she explores the evolving nature of language in online spaces. Her work illuminates the complexities and nuances of linguistic change in our increasingly connected society.

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

2020
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
493 pages
18 hours of reading
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A New York Times BestsellerLanguage is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. Social media is a vast laboratory where language evolves in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that influence the way we communicate with one another.
2019
Because Internet
336 pages
12 hours of reading
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A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before.

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Because Internet