A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age - Softcover

Favilla, Emmy J.; BuzzFeed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408895021 ISBN 13: 9781408895023

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Emmy J. Favilla joined the BuzzFeed team in 2012 and is now global copy chief. She is also the creator of the BuzzFeed Style Guide, which garnered a great deal of media attention as the unofficial "style guide for the internet" when it went public in 2014. A New York University graduate, Favilla has worked as a copy editor at Seventeen, Teen Vogue, and Natural Health. She lives in New York City with a cat, a dog, and two rabbits.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408895021
• ISBN 13: 9781408895023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400