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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
Closer to 3.5 and I’m rounding up because the ideas presented in the book are awesome. The reason I wasn’t a full on 4 star is due to a lot of repetition across the pages: mainly on how English is changing.
Still, light, fun and interesting and very informative on how our language rules, words, and understanding changes.
Still, light, fun and interesting and very informative on how our language rules, words, and understanding changes.
McCullock writes with arch erudition that crackles with wit. She links web language behavior to social psychology, parsing how ending a text with a period seems shouty and why. She offers insights like the pithy, "Irony is a linguistic trust fall." The book is packed with internet history (the evolution of lolcatz, a 40 page chapter on how emoticons evolved into emojis). Ironically though, I'd rather read this book about the internet than actually, you know, hang out on the internet.
I adored this book. McCulloch is a linguist who focuses on how we write on the internet. Her main premise is that while we have both formal and informal spoken language (think about the difference between chatting with your friends and delivering a presentation at work), up until now we’ve really only had formal writing. The internet is changing that, though – with instant messaging, social media, and texting, we’re collectively developing an informal writing style, and it’s FASCINATING. I thought McCulloch’s discussion of the different “generations” of Internet People to be spot-on. Internet People generations are based not on your age, but on what platform you used when you started to talk to people online – how you talked back then probably influences your internet writing style, even now. (For the curious, I’m right on the cusp of “Old Internet People” and “Full Internet People.”) As someone who feels disconnected from younger generations and how they talk online (I still don’t know what all the emojis mean, and I can’t bring myself to do multiple exclamation points), this was the book I was looking for. Highly recommended.
3.5 stars. Definitely lots of fun things to think about or phenomena to recognize, but overall the book was not as interesting as I wanted it to be. It felt long sometimes and took me quite a while to get all the way through. Some parts far more engaging than others. Glad I read it but it was somewhat uneven for me as far as enjoyment.
This is actually one of the few audiobooks I *couldn't* play on double speed. Nothing wrong with it, just didn't engage me as much as i would have liked. Long story short, judging online speech/language by formal speech/language standards is dumb because vernacular has always been different and you're basically being elitist, and probably racist and classist as well. I'm looking at you all those people who automatically correct grammar even though you know exactly what the user is posting and may have just made a typo or didn't proofread before hitting post.
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Dit was een heel goed en interessant boek. De schrijver behandelde veel meer dan ik van te voren had gedacht. Het geeft een interessant inkijkje op hoe taal zich ontwikkeld in onze samenleving en door de jaren heen met dan als focus de ontwikkeling van taal op het internet.
Onderwerpen die langskomen zijn dan bijvoorbeeld: Memes, emoji, het gebruik van leestekens en manieren van schrijven op het internet. De schrijver noemt de achtergrond en de geschiedenis van de fenomenen en wat mogelijke oorzaken zijn. Door het boek heen worden verhalen uit eigen ervaring en van andere mensen gebruikt als voorbeelden. De afwisselende schrijfstijl en de humor zorgt ervoor dat het boek prettig is om te lezen.
Het is een boek over taal en hoe we met elkaar communiceren. Veel breder dan het boek over "taal op het internet" dat ik had verwacht. Ik wist niet dat dit zo interessant was.
Ik heb er van genoten. Een aanrader!
Onderwerpen die langskomen zijn dan bijvoorbeeld: Memes, emoji, het gebruik van leestekens en manieren van schrijven op het internet. De schrijver noemt de achtergrond en de geschiedenis van de fenomenen en wat mogelijke oorzaken zijn. Door het boek heen worden verhalen uit eigen ervaring en van andere mensen gebruikt als voorbeelden. De afwisselende schrijfstijl en de humor zorgt ervoor dat het boek prettig is om te lezen.
Het is een boek over taal en hoe we met elkaar communiceren. Veel breder dan het boek over "taal op het internet" dat ik had verwacht. Ik wist niet dat dit zo interessant was.
Ik heb er van genoten. Een aanrader!
Fun, informative, and covers a broad swath of internet history and linguistics. She has a wonderful way of writing in an invitingly academic way and then switching to pure Tumblr-speak for a brief sentence or parenthetical. Her cred is immaculate.
Опит на езиковедка да направи дълбок анализ на начина, по който общуват хората в интернет. Разликата в поколенията и начините, по които ползват пунктуацията и емоджитата са интересни като идея, но разбира се неприложими у нас защото нашите по-възрастни и по-млади пишат различно едни от други, но и различно от американците.
Книгата е пълна с пълнеж и опити за празно философстване и интелектуалстване, а частта за меметата (миймове, айде от мене да мине) е повече от смехотворна и като че написана от някой, който е започнал и приключил активното си участие в тая част от интернет културата с lolcats :P Пропуснати са цели глави от историята на развитие на меметата, а всичко, което е казано за меме-войната от 2016 е събрано на половин страница, която ни информира неиронично, че жабата пепе е литерали хитлер. L.O.L.
Книгата е пълна с пълнеж и опити за празно философстване и интелектуалстване, а частта за меметата (миймове, айде от мене да мине) е повече от смехотворна и като че написана от някой, който е започнал и приключил активното си участие в тая част от интернет културата с lolcats :P Пропуснати са цели глави от историята на развитие на меметата, а всичко, което е казано за меме-войната от 2016 е събрано на половин страница, която ни информира неиронично, че жабата пепе е литерали хитлер. L.O.L.
A fast, easy overview of how the internet allows for ease of tracking and causing linguistic changes. Breaks down types of language and speakers as well as discussing emojis and such. I already knew some of the information in these pages, but certainly not all of it.