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calli_the_flower 's review for:
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I bought this book after writing an in depth essay about language. Although it didn’t cover as much in depth as I would’ve appreciated some of the nuances of internet culture - like the discord chat feature for example - the author did something much better. This book celebrates language - while most are regarding language changes hesitantly, McCulloch encourages us to embrace it because that’s the magic of language - it is fluid and dynamic. For me, this is a perspective not heard enough and I how she displayed it through internet language examples. I only wish she had dove deeper. That however, would be even more of a literary challenge and I appreciate the work the author did to present the overarching trends of the internet communication.