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• name: description content: I'm an internet linguist: I analyze the language of the internet, for the people of the internet. I'm the author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, a pop linguistics book about internet language which has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. See reviews and other media…
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• About
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• Book: Because Internet
• Podcast: Lingthusiasm
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• https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book
• https://gretchenmcculloch.com/podcast
• January, February, & March 2026: Abridged sonnets and legible arrangements
• 2025 year in review
• October, November, & December 2025: Plays, poems, and preserves
• July, August, & September 2025: ASL Camp and Arroba Lengua
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• When nothing means something
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• Crash Course Linguistics
• Tom Scott’s Language Files
• linguistics
• How Can You Appreciate 23rd-Century English? Look Back 200 Years
• We Will Have Meme Folklorists
• Voldemorting: birdsite, cheeto, and other ways of hiding words in plain sight
• The widely-spoken languages we still can’t translate online
• Children are using emoji for digital-age language learning
• The predictive text meme presents the best version of you
• Coding is for everyone—as long as you speak English
• grammar of doge
• snek
• doggo/pupper
• Whether emoji are language
• Whether emoji are causing the death of English
• What kinds of letters people lengthennnn
• Minimalist capitalization and punctuation on the internet
• linguistic secrets of billions of emoji
• emoji as gesture
• Here’s my speaking reel
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