This quote is from a BBC article "Why tiny words like 'yup' can send you into a tailspin"
"This has created different types of “Internet People”, according to internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch, author of Because Internet. A crucial difference among these types of Internet People is how they first used the internet, and subsequently learned its social etiquette – particularly, whether they learned from peers and socialising online versus whether they first used the internet purely functionally, say for checking email or looking up information. If you learned the internet by socialising, you are more likely to associate its slang with a tone of voice."
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