You might call a lot of this my Helen DeWitt reading list. Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch History and explanation of internet language, written by a linguist. Comparisons of the way different generations of people joined the internet and how that changes their usage, e.g. older people who separate parts of a message with markers like ,,,,,, or ..... which is incomprehensible to younger users. (It turns out, older people do that in their letters and postcards, so it's a transfer of informal language online.) Something interesting on every page including when emojis act as emblems, how punctuation gets verbalised, or how Japanese people use tildes (∼) at the end of words to create the equivalent of yessss.
What I've been reading
What I've been reading
What I've been reading
You might call a lot of this my Helen DeWitt reading list. Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch History and explanation of internet language, written by a linguist. Comparisons of the way different generations of people joined the internet and how that changes their usage, e.g. older people who separate parts of a message with markers like ,,,,,, or ..... which is incomprehensible to younger users. (It turns out, older people do that in their letters and postcards, so it's a transfer of informal language online.) Something interesting on every page including when emojis act as emblems, how punctuation gets verbalised, or how Japanese people use tildes (∼) at the end of words to create the equivalent of yessss.