Centuries might seem like a reasonable timeframe for linguistic change, but a curious thing has happened in the last few decades: English is transforming far more rapidly. Why? Because of the internet.
Our new online tools for communicating have ushered in a new era of linguistic alteration, where different rules for spelling, grammar and syntax can be coined and popularized in just a few years.
In this book we’ll dive deep into internet culture, and spell out the linguistic changes the web has birthed.
14 pages
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