Gretchen McCulloch is an internet linguist who analyses the ways we communicate online. Have you always been interested in our linguistic quirks, and how did that broaden to a love of internet language? Do you think older, or less online, people can get to grips with the new rules? But is there an element of internet language that stumps you? And OK still kind of feels like an acronym, but people don’t think of it as standing for anything in particular.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2019 15:01 UTC