Please enjoy that if you enjoy it!
But the internet is why it's never been so straightforward to understand trends in informal language use.
In "Because Internet," Gretchen McCulloch points out that we've had better records of formal writing, informal writing, and formal speech, but informal speech has had to be guessed from fiction and diaries and things. But now we write it down! This is great.
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