Lucas reviewed Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change …
Good—but written for a broader audience?
4 stars
Entertaining, fun, sprinkled with factoids and insights to pocket for, uh, sometime? Seems aimed at an audience somewhat more casual about research and more reluctant to move away from traditional ideas of language and spelling and etc. Not a fan of generational analyses myself—but this doesn’t keep the book from being worthwhile.