Episode 24
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
Are you feeling flummoxed, bamboozled, and stupefied by communication and language online? And how exactly did LOLcats irreversibly change the course of the English language? Gretchen McCulloch is a Canadian linguist who studies the language of the internet, for the people of the internet. She is currently the Resident Linguist at WIRED.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51828723-because-internet
Audio production by Graham Stephenson
Episode music: "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/