chat apps
Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance
Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.
content
Your work is better than "content"
Anything truly creative is more than just content.
emoji
A plural of emoji - linguistically speaking
The linguistics behind a plural form of “emoji” [http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/japanese-and-the-trouble-with-pluralizing-emoji/422967/] This is a fascinating account of count and non-count nouns – and how they’re assimilated into English: > An example is “water,” which has no plural form. To count water, you must refer
ablogisnotapost
We Blog. And weblog posts.
This is a post or entry on a blog. This is not the latest blog on a blogsite. I am the blogger. If you leave a comment below, you are the commenter. Leaving comments on a post does not make you a blogger… Now, you’ve probably had one of
english
Random Use of CAPITALS
Random linguistic psychology thought of the day*:* Why do some people randomly capitalise technology-related words they aren’t very familiar with. Some examples include MAC for Apple’s Mac computers and, pretty frequently, BLOG, from new bloggers. It’s common enough that there must be a root behind it somewhere.