A World Without 'Whom': The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age
Author(s): Emmy J. Favilla
Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of `correct' writing? When Emmy Favilla was tasked with creating a styleguide for BuzzFeed, she opted for spelling, grammar and punctuation guidelines that would reflect how readers actually use language IRL. With wry humour and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of internet-age expression, Favilla makes a case for breaking the stuffy rules that have hitherto defined our relationship with language. Featuring priceless emoji strings, sidebars, quizzes and style debates among the most lovable word nerds of the digital media world - of which Favilla is the go-to style guru - A World Without "Whom" is essential for readers and writers of posts, tweets, texts, emails and whatever comes next.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age
What a fab book. If Emmy Favilla ever seeks adoption, give her my number. Not enough panda jokes, but otherwise hahahahaha -- Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Whether you're a person ‘for whom’ the rapid changes to language since the invent of social media is exciting or indeed, disturbing, this book will have you riveted. Written by the chief copy editor for BuzzFeed, and telling the story behind a handbook Buzzfeed had her write as a guide for companies to exploit modern day language trends on the internet. Should language be fixed, or has it always been fluid? Fascinating stuff for all modern day communicating humans.
Amarina, The Book Grocer
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 0.94
- : 01 October 2017
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 400
- : 1217
- : Paperback
- : Emmy J. Favilla
