A World Without ""Whom""

The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

Ms. Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing
01 December 2017

Writing & editing guides; Reference; Impact of science & technology on society; Ethical & social aspects of computing; Digital lifestyle

A World Without ""Whom"" is Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age, and BuzzFeed global copy chief Emmy Favilla is the witty go-to style guru of internetspeak.

As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of ""correct"" writing? When Favilla was tasked with creating a style guide for BuzzFeed, she opted for spelling, grammar, and punctuation guidelines that would reflect not only the site's lighthearted tone, but also how readers actually use language IRL.

With wry cleverness and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of internet-age expression, Favilla makes a case for breaking the rules laid out by Strunk and White: A world without ""whom,"" she argues, is a world with more room for writing that's clear, timely, pleasurable, and politically aware. Featuring priceless emoji strings, sidebars, quizzes, and style debates among the most lovable nerds of the digital copy world--of which Favilla is queen--A World Without ""Whom"" is essential for readers and writers of all kinds, including of posts, tweets, texts, emails, and whatever comes next . . . so basically everyone.

By: Ms. Emmy J. Favilla, BuzzFeed
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 428g
ISBN: 9781408895023
ISBN 10: 1408895021
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for A World Without ""Whom"": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

What a fab book. If Emmy Favilla ever seeks adoption, give her my number. Not enough panda jokes, but otherwise hahahahaha -- Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves Despite the tone of chirpy self-satire, what follows is a small revolution … Unlike the language scolds of yore, Favilla embraces the new ways, punctuating her writing with emoji, inserting screengrabs of instant messages, using texting shortcuts such as “amirite”? Hers is a rule book with fewer rules than orders to ignore them * Times Literary Supplement *