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morci 's review for:
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch
This was fantastic. I actually did the audiobook and the author did a great job reading her own work. It is all about the history of the Internet and how it has changed and effected the way humans use language.
My favorite bits were her pronouncing asdfgakjhjsk vs. Kglfjshhkd, how addressing emails as ‘Dear Name’ is too formal and too intimate at the same time nowadays, and of course the late great Lolcats language.
There was so much more, things I intrinsically knew but never examined, and Internet history I never realized changed the world.
A fun, humorous, and exploratory read.
My favorite bits were her pronouncing asdfgakjhjsk vs. Kglfjshhkd, how addressing emails as ‘Dear Name’ is too formal and too intimate at the same time nowadays, and of course the late great Lolcats language.
There was so much more, things I intrinsically knew but never examined, and Internet history I never realized changed the world.
A fun, humorous, and exploratory read.