This book was fascinating, I really enjoyed it. Its a book, written by a linguist who has been studying the progression of internet language. She concisely and clearly explains different aspects of the development of language via internet examples. Stuff that seems so normal to anyone who is a regular internet user, second nature sentence structure and the development of slang. It was a super interesting read, its made me more considerate of my writing and texting.
I never used to use emojis, at least not regularly. I would occasionally use them as simple reactions, or I would use emojis that function as gestures, a thumbs up, or a facepalm. Since reading the books I've been more conscious of my emoji use, and more intentional.
It has also made me more self conscious about my writing, not necessarily in a negative way, just more aware of how I write, and how my writing changes depending on what I'm talking about. Its been making me more curious about linguistics in general, also, its helped to fan the re=ignited flame of my interest in language learning.
Speaking of, I need to buy some large binders and and print out a bunch of the korean and maybe spanish grammar lessons. I've decided to focus on those two primarily for now, then once I feel happy with my spanish, I plan to expand to portuguese and italian. I also eventually want to learn arabic, I've tried to in the past, but I never stuck with it long enough for anything to sink in.
As I'm writing this, I'm watching an episode of Elementary that talks about psilocybin, and now I want to buy this book I found about psychedelics, and write a blog post about it and my experience with such drugs.
This post will still be filed under april, even though it will be published in may, because I started writing it in april, and I'm lazy.