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Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? Lol, no.
Facebook posts and text messages are far from being bastions
of grammar. People’s communication online has an informal quality that is often
at odds with established linguistic rules, but Montreal-based linguist Gretchen
McCulloch says that it’s not really that big of a problem. McCulloch’s new
book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language explores
the style of informal writing people use when talking...