AWorld Without "Whom"

EATS, SHOOTS, & LEAVES for the internet age, an eloquent, entertaining counterpoint to The New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris's Between You and Me, the first major book on internet-age language. Since the explosion of Facebook, Twitter, and BuzzFeed, no one has officially addressed the changes and additions to our everyday lexicon. For anyone who reads, writes, and posts (which is pretty much everyone).An official BuzzFeed book: BuzzFeed now has more than 200 million monthly unique visitors from around the world, more than 16.5 billion total views on its videos, more than 20.5 million subscribers on Youtube, and more than 15.5 million likes on Facebook-and will put all of their marketing muscle into getting the word out on this book.Mediagenic Emmy Favilla is ready for primetime: She's been on the Today Show, NPR, in the NYT, Time magazine and is considered the go-to source by mainstream journalists for her up-to-the-minute take on language usage and trends.For wordfreaks everywhere: You may not agree with everything Emmy Favilla says, but you will be entertained, fascinated, and enlightened by her authoritative and brilliantly written take on language today.Fun, fun, fun: Playful graphics, screengrabs, emojis, sidebars, and quizzes throughout make this a fun, visually-compelling read that doubles as language usage in the 21st century.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.Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of 'correct' writing? When Emmy Favilla was tasked with creating a styleguide for BuzzFeed, she opted for spelling, grammar and punctuation guidelines that would reflect how readers actually use language IRL. With wry humour and an uncanny intuition for the possibilities of internet-age expression, Favilla makes a case for breaking the stuffy rules that have hitherto defined our relationship with language. Featuring priceless emoji strings, sidebars, quizzes and style debates among the most lovable word nerds of the digital media world - of which Favilla is the go-to style guru - A World Without "Whom" is essential for readers and writers of posts, tweets, texts, emails and whatever comes next.Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet ageWhat a fab book. If Emmy Favilla ever seeks adoption, give her my number. Not enough panda jokes, but otherwise hahahahaha