#Gretchen McCulloch

[rainbowfic]

But there was a period of friction, when “hello” was spreading beyond its summoning origins to become a general-purpose greeting, and not everyone was a fan. I was reminded of this when watching a scene in the BBC television series Call the Midwife, set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where a younger midwife greets an older one with a cheerful “Hello!” “When I was in training,” sniffs the older character, “we were always taught to say ‘good morning,’ ‘good afternoon,’ or ‘good evening.’ ‘Hello’ would not have been permitted.” To the younger character, “hello” has firmly crossed the line into a phatic greeting. But to the older character, or perhaps more accurately to her instructors as a young nurse, “hello” still retains an impertinent whiff of summoning. Etiquette books as late as the 1940s were still advising against “hello,” but in the mouth of a character from the 1960s, being anti-hello is intended to make her look like a fussbudget, especially playing for an audience of the future who’s forgotten that anyone ever objected to “hello.”

Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch

#quotation prompts #Because Internet #palette knife prompt #prompts #Gretchen McCulloch

[southeast-northwest]

giggling and kicking my feet reading this book??like hi? hello?? dude linguistics has always scratched my brain in such a!!! perfect way!! and ive found the time to read and got my hands on some second hand books and I've been getting through them like fuckkkk,,,,

i wish. i wish. id gotten the opportunity to study linguistics at a uni level. that'd be the dream..

in another life im an academic linguist. unfortunately in this life i like being able to afford food.

ANYWAY huge hype about Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. as soon as I finish reading this book I wanna check out her podcast @lingthusiasm

also!!! send me reccs of linguistics books (that are less than a few decades old if possible). as interesting as Pinker's thoughts are, it's kinda funny reading this guy say, in full confidence, that language is so complicated that computers will never be able to believably write anything resembling natural human communication. lol

#im so normal about this #linguistics #fuck it this can go on my yearning blog im yearning for a life where i can study linguistics frfr #love #yearning #lingthusiasm #because internet #gretchen mcculloch #special interest #idk broskis i think i should be paid a million dollars a day for just reading books that facinate me

[small-strong-bookish-butch]

"If you learned how to have a conversation from movies, you might think that people regularly hang up the phone without saying goodbye and no one ever interrupts anyone else. If you learned to think out loud from news programs, you might believe that no one ever "ums" or waves their hands while searching for an idea, and that people swear rarely and never before ten p.m. If you learned to tell stories from audiobooks, you might think that nothing much new had happened with the English language in the past couple hundred years.

If you only ever talked when you were public speaking, you'd expect that talking always involves anxious butterflies in your stomach and hours of preparation before facing an audience.

Of course, you did none of these things. You learned to talk domestically, conversationally, and informally, long before you could sit through an entire news report or deliver a speech.

...We learned to read a formal kind of language which pretends that the past century or two of English hasn't really happened, which presents words and books to us cut off from the living people who created them, which downplays the alchemy of two people tossing thoughts back and forth in perfect balance. We learned to write with a paralyzing fear of red ink and were taught to worry about form before we even got to consider what we wanted to say, as if good writing were a thing of mechanistic rule-picking rather than of grace and verve. Naturally, we're as intimidated by the blank page as we are by public speaking.

That is, we were until very recently. The internet and mobile devices have brought us an explosion of writing by normal people."

—Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch, p. 1-2*

*several paragraphs cut for clarity

#because internet #currently reading #linguistics #language #gretchen mcculloch

[oficmag]

Book Rec: Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

Medium: Novel

Genre: Nonfiction

Tags/Content Warnings: Linguistics, Meme Analysis, Internet Lingo

Originally, I picked this book up as research for a project. From the preview, I knew two chapters in particular would be useful to me. I didn’t expect to read the whole book cover to cover in a day and start using the concepts basically daily. 

Because Internet is a charming, engaging analysis of the speech patterns developed On Here. Not just a list of internet terms for offline people to scoff at, not an outsider prescribing rules, but a genuine in-depth look at what purposes these ways of speaking serve by someone who clearly understands. I walked away from this book with an understanding of how communication must work differently online to even hope to convey half of an in-person conversation can.

That concept was especially thought-provoking as a writer—I have never been so aware of the limitations of the written word as I was after reading this book, nor so appreciative of the way language and our brains evolve as technology does. I cannot recommend this book—or the author’s podcast, lingthusiasm!—highly enough to anyone interested in the topic. 

You can find this book here.

Recommender: Anna | Art Director

#bookblr #recs #book recs #gretchen mcculloch #lingthusiasm

[ilikereadingactually]

Because Internet

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch

i've been wanting to read this book for ages, and my instinct that i would enjoy it proved totally true. it's a book very much of its moment (it came out in summer 2019) and McCulloch knows and embraces that, and it was actually fascinating to read a few years after the fact because even in that short time, i can already see how internet language and my own informal language have continued to change.

according to the internet speech cohorts outlined in the early chapters of the book, i am a Full Internet Person, maybe a little bit on the cusp of Old Internet Person, and i haven't felt so specifically seen since that article about the Oregon Trail Generation. but everybody's in here, pre-internet, post-internet, you name it, and the book lays out language evolutions over these waves in fun and smart and readable ways. why do boomers use ... at the ends of their texts?? why did emojis catch on?? how do memes evolve??? why do multiple question marks and almost no capitalization feel different than if i wrote this like i was about to turn it in for a grade???? go forth and read to find out!

the deets

how i read it: i read this one as an ebook on Libby, which was deceptive because there were a lot of endnotes and back matter! it was a quick read, for nonfiction, which often goes slower for me.

a line i liked: tag yourself im "kept the same username for decades even"

Those who joined the internet to meet new people kept the same username across platforms for years, decades even, so that their internet friends could find them. But for the internet users who joined in order to hang out with people they already knew, screennames were a way of performing identity, rather than obscuring it: your username might honor a favorite band or movie quote, and could change a few months later as your pop cultural allegiances shifted.

try this if you: think linguistics is cool, are an Internet Person, or want to spend hours thinking about what your top emojis say about your emotional expression (maybe that's just me?)

#books and reading #book recs #nonfiction #because internet #gretchen mcculloch #book reveiws #bookblr

[wanderingsp1rit]

In a chapter on how people choose to use language, based on society and a certain choice that the author adopted.

Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet (p.48)

#book quotes #because internet #Gretchen McCulloch

[cynicademia]

Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch

#words #oh heart #Gretchen McCulloch #.jpeg #.txt

[skiscratcher]

people act like the internet ruins language, meanwhile at tumblr, we’re inventing new ways to convey emotion through language

#this post brought to you by #gretchen mcculloch

[gotmolokoplus]

Never say Tumblr never did anything for anyone. Someone on here recommended Because Internet to me and it’s been one of my favourite reads this year so far. And I just finished reading Sapiens before it.

#because internet #gretchen mcculloch #linguistics #life

[rainbowfic]

The linguist J. K. Chambers did a survey of Canadian twelve-year-olds in the 1970s, and found that two-thirds of them said “zee”—but when he went back and surveyed the same population in the 1990s, he found that the vast majority were now using “zed” as adults. The same shift happened with successive generations. Chambers figured that children learn “zee” from the alphabet song and American children’s television programs like Sesame Street, but when they get older, they learn that “zed” is associated with Canadian identity and switch. Indeed, noted Chambers, “zed” is one of the first things that American immigrants to Canada change about their speech, “because calling it ‘zee’ unfailingly draws comments from the people they are talking to.”

Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch

#quotation prompts #Because Internet #palette knife prompt #prompts #Gretchen McCulloch

[ooooo5us]

Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: מה מביעה כיום נקודה בסוף משפט?

Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: מה מביעה כיום נקודה בסוף משפט?

. כבר מציור העטיפה, וגם משמו של הספר, אפשר ללמוד לא מעט על תכניו. הצירוף Because Internet שגוי מבחינה דקדוקית: המילה because מצריכה אחריה את מילת היחס of ורק בעקבותיה – שם עצם, כמו “Internet”. השיבוש מכוון, כמובן. המחברת, גרטשן מק’קולוך, מבקשת להדגים את אחת הסוגיות המתוארות בספר שלפנינו: ההבדל בין דקדוק “כופה”, מה שמכונה באנגלית prescriptive, כלומר – זה שמצווה על המשתמשים בו כללים של עשה ואל…

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#Gretchen McCulloch #אינטרנט

[tamaharu]

i cant read books published after 2012 anymore because tell me why this linguistics book im reading just brought up welcome to night vale

#YOURE A NONFICTION BOOK.... YOU SHOULDNT KNOW ABOUT CECIL PALMER.... #its my fault though its a book on internet linguistics. by what a specific reference. gretchen mcculloch whats your take on the newest ep.

[britomart]

the thing is i am acutely aware of how my diction has been dictated by the internet however recognition + self awareness =/= automatic change so maybe i'm stuck like this because i spend and have spent too much time on the internet to really change or reverse it

#i also think the way i talk can be chalked down to autism but that is neither here nor there. #anyways i feel like i always find myself speaking in .... internet phraseology ... and then i cringe because boooo i hate the internet #but idk if i can really change it even if i wanted to!!!!!! #anyways because internet by gretchen mcculloch is a very good book on this topic

[polymorphemic-vector]

young siblings of linguistics nerd barred from the wug test due to being primed by older siblings' frequent mumblings of the list of non-default wug pluralizations

#recommended reading: #that one Gretchen McCulloch tweet with a list

[quelsentiment]

not my dad using the 🙃 emoji

#sir where did you learn this 😭 #i swear i should do a longitudinal study of my parents' text usage bc it's changed dramatically over the past 2 years #like... they dont have any social media but theyve started being in Whatsapp groups so im guessing that's where it's from #but like theyre all boomers in them so??? #who's transmitting the change bro #fascinating stuff also im currently reading Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch and it’s great #kinda makes me want to do a phd on tumblr lingo or something

[superlinguo]

2024 LingComm Grantees: New linguistics projects for you to follow

The 2024 LingComm Grants awarded six $500 (USD) grants, thanks to the support of Lingthusiasm, Rob Monarch, Wordnik, Claire Bowern, and Kirby Conrod and friends. Some of these projects are already producing content for you to enjoy right now!

LingComm Grants.

Emily Remirez, Linguistics Coloring Book

Adam Aleksic, Etymology Nerd videos

Sarah Wood, Pina Hare, Marcus Wilker, Get the Reference Podcast

Onyedikachi Augustine Okodo, English Parliament radio show

Irene Lami, Saussure e Grida podcast

Kirby Conrod LGBTQ+ LingComm Grant:

Montreal Benesch, trans*languaging art show

Commendations:

Talia Sherman, Tomayto Tomahto podcast

Franca Umasoye Igwe, Say No to Language Shaming Campaign

Marvin Nauendorff, Anthony Burger, Anna Sulaiman, Rebecca Hall, Alice Pol, Perla Camacho-Cedillo, Aline Vitaly, Yuka Kawasaki, Linguaphile Language Magazine

Grants were judged by Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch and also included a group mentoring meeting for advice and support. The 2024 LingComm Grants received 40 applications.

For more on the 2024 grants, the winners from previous years, and other lingcomm resources, check out the LingComm website.

#language #linguistics #lingcomm #lingcomm grants