Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing

A fizzing take on how the internet is transforming language by the resident linguist at Wired . A critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller. THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more- Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that’s a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. ‘McCulloch is such a disarming writer – lucid, friendly, unequivocally excited about her subject – that I began to marvel at the flexibility of the online language she describes, with its numerous shades of subtlety.’ New York Times —- ISBN: 9781529112825 | ISBN10: 1529112826 | ISBN-13: 978-1529112825