Is The Period Dead? One BuzzFeed Editor On How The Internet Has Changed Language
Emmy Favilla, former BuzzFeed global copy chief, has written a guide to language usage and how it’s been shaped by social media and the internet.
Favilla (@em_dash3) joins Here & Now‘s Robin Young to talk about “A World Without ‘Whom’: The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age.”
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Interview Highlights
On grammar rules
“There are rules. I think that the number of hard-and-fast rules is dwindling a bit in this age of omnipresent technology. It’s funny to me how everything else in our world evolves — technology, the food we eat, our fashion — but for whatever reason, language is this one thing that people are such sticklers about.”
On some common mistakes, and using the right words
“So a ‘hoard’ is a large collection of something, while a ‘horde’ is a large group of people, and as a copy editor, I feel like this is one of the top spelling mistakes that I see even from professional journalists and writers. And to be quite honest, sometimes I have to double check, too, because after
