https://scoutfin.net/tags/sociolinguistics/ Recent content in Sociolinguistics on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:57:32 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-10-07-my-grammar-bends-my-style-does-not/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:57:32 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/posts/2026-10-07-my-grammar-bends-my-style-does-not/ A friend sent me a video about what lowercase texting signals. I claimed my own chat register was looser than my published prose, registered six predictions, and measured 503 of my own messages against 283,000 words of published writing. I got two right.