Andrew's Reviews > Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

If I wanted to give an older person a primer on language and the Internet, this might be it. It helps that Gretchen McCulloch is about the perfect age to write a text like this – old enough to have perspective, young enough to meme (unlike the regrettably common “how do you do, fellow teens” think piece). And she throws out excellent examples, stays intellectually honest, cultivates neither Silicon Valley optimism, nor National Review pessimism, and does a decent enough job at being funny (rarest of modes in academe). High fives all around.