Gretchen McCulloch
Person on 4 sites
Gretchen McCulloch is a Canadian linguist who studies the language of the internet: memes, emoji and messaging.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Book: Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Riverhead Books, 2019) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Podcast: Lingthusiasm, with Lauren Gawne (opens wiqqi.app)
- Columns: Resident linguist at Wired; earlier at The Toast (opens wiqqi.app)
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5 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Blog: All Things Linguistic (opens allthingslinguistic.com)
“onthecareandfeedingofcatgirls: allthingslinguistic: Linguistics...”
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Site: gretchenmcculloch.com (opens gretchenmcculloch.com)
“July, August, & September 2026: Several horrifying meat textures”
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Podcast: Lingthusiasm (opens lingthusiasm.com)
“121: Vampires, ghosts, imposters and more linguistic monsters”
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Blog: All Things Linguistic (opens allthingslinguistic.com)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Internet abbreviations are based on sound rather than spelling. (opens korrents.com)
“The interesting thing about abbrevs is that they're based on sound, not on spelling.”
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Index and commentary hashtags exist on a continuum rather than being strictly separate categories. (opens korrents.com)
“Not every hashtag falls neatly into one category or the other: index and commentary hashtags are more like two ends of a hashtag continuum.”
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The meaning of 'cheeky' appears to have expanded, more so in the UK than in the US. (opens korrents.com)
“Our gut feeling was that the meaning of cheeky has expanded and this was happening more in the UK than in the U.S.”
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Internet abbreviations are based on sound rather than spelling. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–from Azure to Zinc Pink (opens rcmnd.app)
“I have been waiting for this book from Kory Stamper since I was a fan of her blog in 2014 and it does not disappoint.”
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Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (opens rcmnd.app)
“Her first book was Word By Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, which we also loved, and now Kory is back with the fruits of her dive into the mid-20th century quest to standardize colour terms”
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Hellspark (opens rcmnd.app)
“so I’ve paired it with Hellspark, Janet Kagen’s sf book of translation and cultural miscommunication, which several @lingthusiasm listeners told us to read and they were EXTREMELY RIGHT.”
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–from Azure to Zinc Pink (opens rcmnd.app)