![]() Most writing used to be regulated (or self-regulated) there were postcards and diary entries, but even those had standards. But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in “ Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English, informal writing is relatively new. The first pours from political orators the second winds around friends at a bar. ![]() We’ve long had both formal and informal modes of speech. This is, of course, the difference between informal and formal expression, between language that serves as a loose and intuitive vehicle for thought and language into which one must wrestle one’s thought like a parent forcing his squirming kid into a car seat. ![]() ![]() Often, this insight is accompanied by the rueful observation that tweeting is easy. A common refrain from writers on Twitter is that writing is hard. ![]()
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