Lauren: “Oh, my gosh! Can the words you read change your behaviour? The Wired style guide changed my life. you never lacked time. In “Because Internet,” the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reviews the ways the online environment is changing how we communicate.

Look Back 200 Years, no fewer than five (5!) The main episode of Lingthusiasm was about the tricky question of what makes a language “easy” (Spoiler: it’s not that straightforward). She delves deeply into the corpus of internet speech to … Part I – What is a Weird Internet Career?

Several exciting Lingthusiasm-related announcements! (They even raised the initial McC!). Lauren and I also finally finished the bulk of the writing on the scripts for Crash Course Linguistics this month! She writes the Resident Linguist column at Wired (and formerly at The Toast ). Gretchen: We’re in a soup loop. Here are a few highlights: I also co-wrote an academic article with Lauren Gawne, Emoji as Digital Gestures in the journal Language@Internet [Open Access]. I wrote an article for Wired in which I got to talk with a lot of really interesting people about the importance of language to public health: Covid-19 Is History’s Biggest Translation Challenge. Lauren: “Yes. A reflection on how starting All Things Linguistic back in 2012 was the seed that led to all of the interesting and exciting things I’m doing now, including writing articles, writing a book, and doing the podcast — and how to approach trying to do something similar. Wow. Highlights: a short talk about emoji, gesture, and internet linguistics, a thread from a SciComm workshop, the Language Science for Everyone booth, and meeting a bunch of people who have a similar sort of weird internet/scicomm job as I do but in different fields. First, I went to the Bay Area for Social Science FooCamp, where I gave a lightning talk about how the internet is changing language, and for Comma-Con, Facebook’s internal conference for their writing team, where I gave a keynote about the future of language online. She writes the Resident Linguist column at Wired (and formerly at The Toast).McCulloch has a master’s in linguistics from McGill University, runs the blog All Things Linguistic, and cohosts Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. Recommended if you like Unicode jokes. Are your teens secretly texting about languages using ISO-639-3 codes?

Gretchen: “And, you know, I think it’s a good question.” They think linguists must have a mystic access to the higher realms of the language and that we oughtn't to sully ourselves with anything as profane as swearing. an audio sample of me reading the audiobook. Here are a few of my favourite blog posts about it: I also did over 200 media interviews for the book, but I’ve already summarized those on my 2019 year in review post. Oh. you lacked two ___. I posted the latter part of my Weird Internet Careers series: If you want to get the Weird Internet Careers series as a 30-page document, plus bonus questions to ask yourself about starting your Weird Internet Career, you can sign up for these posts as a monthly newsletter.

Our main episode on Lingthusiasm was an interview with Janelle Shane, who the Very Online might recognize as that person who gets neural nets to come up with weird names for ice cream flavours, colour terms, and other delightfully strange experiments. I would like to attest that if you’re on a group call with friends, i knew that some parts of Because Internet were going to age quickly, because that’s what happens when you write a book about the internet, but i confess i wasn’t expecting, other people, quarantime-googling: how to cut own hair, The coronavirus has led to increased attention to minority languages in China, as, Two (!!) This month’s image is, of course, that snazzy paperback edition of Because Internet! So if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like when I’m giving a talk about internet linguistics, you can now watch a five minute highlights video here! You'll have to click to learn more, but it involves stuff like: "A minimal doge utterance contains at least two but often three 2-word doge phrases, followed by a single-word doge phrase (most commonly wow).

Bandicoot Cabbagepatch, Bandersnatch Cumberbund, and even Wimbledon Tennismatch: there seem to be endless variations on the name of Benedict Cumberbatch.

Make sure to also read Janelle’s blog post about making the robo-generated Lingthusiasm episode.

Gretchen McCulloch last explained exactly how the Benedict Cumberbatch name generator works and why dogespeak is so doge. I collaborated with Tom Scott and Molly Ruhl on a series of short youtube videos about linguistics.

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