Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc@xoxo.zone

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.

"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

Gonna buy the audiobook of @gretchenmcc's Because Internet just* so I can hear her reading out keysmashes and emoji.

*not really just that at all, in fact because I think she's great and she's singlehandedly made me so much less snobby about internet language that I used to hate

@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

It's here! @gretchenmcc

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

/cc @gretchenmcc

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

https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-our-own-fans-better-than-tech-organizing-information/

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: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540664/because-internet-by-gretchen-mcculloch/9780735210936/

@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?

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: https://www.wired.com/story/voldemorting-ultimate-seo-diss-resident-linguist/

https://www.wired.com/story/voldemorting-ultimate-seo-diss-resident-linguist/

this article by @gretchenmcc is the best

#linguistics #fandom #MastoMeta

This bot wants to sing with you! @singalongbot

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

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

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejVvGtYMyUxYGfi2YUxKLiTkuLxN9gNb8RDK7LtYrZU7JVsg/viewform

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

i blame @gretchenmcc

This is the “don’t @ me” of footnotes (Word by Word by Kory Stamper)