How to Get Your Point Across Online, With Linguist Gretchen McCulloch
The Upgrade by Lifehacker · Lifehacker
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Show Notes
Have you ever spun out over why your friend ended that text with a period? Or missed the subtle sarcasm in an unpunctuated email? We’re clearing up all of these online miscommunications and more this week with help from internet linguist, Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen is the resident linguist at WIRED and author of the New York Times bestseller Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language.
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