Curiosity Daily Podcast: Is Internet Language Bad? (w/ Gretchen McCulloch) and How to Remember More Dreams
Learn about what you can do to remember more of your dreams. You’ll also learn about the difference between internet language and regular language, in the first edition of our “Hashtag Tuesdays” mini-series with internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.
August 20, 2019
Episode Show Notes:
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about how you can remember more of your dreams: https://curiosity.im/31y2Y37
Additional resources from Gretchen McCullough:
- “Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language” — https://amazon.com
- Follow @GretchenAMcC on Twitter — https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC
- Official website — https://gretchenmcculloch.com/
- Lingthusiasm, Gretchen’s podcast — https://lingthusiasm.com/
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