Adrienne

“Rather than thinking of books as a way of embalming language, of rendering it fixed and dead for eternity (or at least of trapping and caging it so it doesn’t move around quite so much), we can think of them as maps and guidebooks to help people navigate language’s living, moving splendor. Every atlas eventually becomes a history book, but a globe is still a glorious thing to feel spinning under your hands with potential.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.”
― Samuel Pepys, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys

“Language's only known predator is other people: many languages have been stamped out or imposed on others through war or conquest.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Dictionaries are the record of how people are already using the language, not providers of words for us to start using.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language