I first came across Gretchen McCulloch’s writing on internet linguistics in a piece for the now-defunct website, “The Toast.” It was about how sarcasm developed online, and began like this: “Sarcasm.

The following is an excerpt of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch. Imagine learning to talk from recordings rather than people. If you learned how to have ...

Gretchen McCulloch is a linguist who writes popular linguistics, especially about internet language. She blogs daily at AllThingsLinguistic.com. How is language evolving on the internet? In this ...

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