Gramer Girl here. I'm Minyon Fogarty and today I'm here with Gretchen McCulloch, the internet

linguist who's behind the blog All Things Linguistic and part of the podcast link thiziasm.

But I'm talking to her today because she has a new book out called Because Internet,

Understanding the new rules of language. I'm excited to talk to her about it and I hope

you enjoy the conversation too. Before we start, I do have a quick announcement. I'm doing

another AP style webinar in August and this time it's advanced AP style. It's live on August

20th, but if you register, you'll also get a recording. You can learn more or register

at bit.ly slash apstyle2019 and I'll put that link in the show description you should

be able to see in your podcast player. And now on to the show.

Hey, Gretchen, thanks for being here with me today. Hello, thanks for having me. You're

welcome. I'm so excited about your new book because I've been following you for years.

You've been wrote a couple things for the Gramer Girl podcast and now you, you're all grown

up and you have your own book. Yeah, the Gramer Girl podcast is actually the very first place

that I wrote when I started writing for the public. So it's all for you. Oh my gosh,

I'm so happy to hear that. I didn't know that. That's wonderful. Yeah, that was what

came to be the idea that maybe people would actually be interested in pop linguistics.

So one of the reasons I'm really excited to talk to you is because a complaint I often hear

is about kids these days on the internet and they do all this weird writing and a lot

of adults or older people think that kids are just lazy or don't know how to use English.

And your research in book is a whole exploration into why that's not true. And I tell people

it's not true, but I'm not great at explaining it because I'm not a kid and I haven't spent,

you know, years looking into internet language, but you have. And so you can explain why kids

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