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Gretchen McCulloch  

Anyway, hi, I'm an internet linguist!

You might know me from writing linguistics articles at The Toast (RIP)

These days I cohost a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (lingthusiasm.com) and I'm writing a book in defense of internet language which'll be out with Penguin in 2019 gretchenmcculloch.com/book

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Mara, one day at a time  

youtube.com/watch?v=xYZMWkmXX3

The linguistics of video-game gibberish, with a focus on the history of Animal Crossing

@gretchenmcc

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Mara, one day at a time  

I've got another article up on Ars Technica! This one's a review of @gretchenmcc 's book Because Internet

arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11

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be excellent to each other  

I wrote some of my thoughts about the decentralization of language on the web while reading 'Because Internet' by @gretchenmcc davidwolfpaw.com/decentralizat

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HECboy  

Ha! @gretchenmcc on the fact that the power imbalance of different accents is socially constructed: "Words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you get a job."

Meat twitches. I love it.

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Mara, one day at a time  

Because Internet 

"R is a harmless consonant that never asked to be embroiled in any of our petty human squabbles."

I've listened to just enough Lingthusiasm that I can hear all these quips in @gretchenmcc 's voice even without buying the audiobook

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Mara, one day at a time  

@gretchenmcc The livetoot begins with the jacket blurb: "language is humanity's most spectacular open source project" is not a way I've ever thought about language before

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Mara, one day at a time  

It's here! @gretchenmcc

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norm  

Guess what I just found in the mailbox. Excited to dig in!

/cc @gretchenmcc

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Mara, one day at a time  

@gretchenmcc wrote a cool thing about the Archive of Our Own tag system

wired.com/story/archive-of-our

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Janelle Shane  

Just finished an advance copy of Because Internet by @gretchenmcc ! It’s all about Internet language and I understand so much more now about why some people use Wildly different styles online, and how the meaning varies depending on when you first started using the Internet . It’s really fascinating! Preorder: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

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Mara, one day at a time  

@gretchenmcc asked on Twitter what people's favorite Unicode characters are. I couldn't decide between ampersand (&), lowercase esh (ʃ) and cup of tea emoji (🍵) .

What are your favorite #unicode characters?

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Gretchen McCulloch  

How do young children use emoji? Let's find out!

By popular request, a CHILD EMOJI AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION survey!

Please answer it if you have preliterate or semi-literate kids in your life, or share it with people who do, and hopefully we can make a CHILD EMOJI CORPUS 🥰


docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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Alexandra Hoegberg  

You know how on they say that all publicity is good publicity, even when it's bad? Well, if you don't want to give a certain character or company the pleasure of knowing that you talk about them, #Voldemorting is the solution. Read @gretchenmcc for WIRED: wired.com/story/voldemorting-u

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Mara, one day at a time  

wired.com/story/voldemorting-u

this article by @gretchenmcc is the best

#linguistics #fandom #MastoMeta

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Janelle Shane  

This bot wants to sing with you! @singalongbot

A post-XOXO project by @gretchenmcc , Kate Compton, and me.

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A portion of the section at MIT libraries in my August linkfest and monthly summary post!

gretchenmcculloch.com/2018/09/

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Janelle Shane  

RT @gretchenmcc Please provide your catchiest songs, for Science*

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

*and by Science, I mean a late-night internet social experiment that we dreamed up at #xoxofest

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Gretchen McCulloch  

(I just want people to come, so also feel free to drop by if you just want a guaranteed location to find me and say hi! It's a big conference!)

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Gretchen McCulloch  

Language meetup at @xoxo!

Do come even if you aren't sure if you qualify as languagey enough (there may be word games!) & feel free to drop by for just a bit!

2-5pm on the Friday social day

See the social spreadsheet or the language channel in slack for location

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ranjit :peter:  

linguistics / star trek joke 

i blame @gretchenmcc

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