MY TEXTING style is pretty salty. I curse a lot, generally in a friendly way, but my phone’s autocomplete functionality is really cramping my style. No, I didn’t mean “duck”. I wasn’t typing “fick”, “five”, “dock” or (when my poor algorithm gets desperate) “Fuchs”. You know what I wanted to say, dear reader, and it’s one of the most commonly spoken words in English. And yet I have to correct my phone’s autocorrection to write it.
I’m not the only one with this problem. Linguist Gretchen McCulloch, whose new book Because Internet is a fascinating exploration of how the…
