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“Dictionaries are the record of how people are already using the language, not providers of words for us to start using.”

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Book:Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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“The difference between how people communicate in the internet era boils down to a fundamental question of attitude: Is your informal writing oriented towards the set of norms belonging to the online world or the offline one?”

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Book:Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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“Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.”

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Book:Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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“Truly obscure animals, like the axolotl (a type of salamander) or the Wunderpus photogenicus (a type of octopus which, true to its name, is very photogenic), don't have nicknames in common use, although I expect to hear from the Association for Researchers of the Axolotl and the Wunderpus Photogenicus (ARAWP?) any day now informing me that they say them often enough that they've devised more efficient names for them.”

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Book:Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Source: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language