Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language — Quotes

Imported from: Clippings/McCulloch-Because-Internet.md

Notes built from this: mcculloch-because-internet-part-1

Author: Gretchen McCulloch Source: Goodreads

20 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Book page: mcculloch-because-internet-part-1

• “Like the big collaborative projects of the internet…”
• “Language is humanity’s most spectacular open source project…”
• “IBM experimented with adding Urban Dictionary data to…”
• “Thinking of emoji as gestures helps put things…”
• “Dictionaries are the record of how people are…”
• “Perfectly following a list of punctuation rules may…”
• “Like how money is just squiggles on paper…”
• “Adding someone in social media is a way…”
• “Still, it’s tempting to mislabel the many words…”
• “Language’s only known predator is other people: many…”
• “Sending someone all of the possible birthday party…”
• “Language is a thing that lives in the…”
• “Clearly, it’s not the R’s fault. R is…”
• “The Library of Congress archives memes now, preserving…”
• “Many languages can’t have spelling bees because their…”
• “High school is a place where people really…”
• “Like how money is just squiggles on paper…”
• “Rather than thinking of books as a way…”
• “Writing and weaving are both acts of creation…”
• “Like how money is just squiggles on paper…”