it's a good book, with good info, and i'm a personal fan of gretchen mcculloch's work! giving it a review this low hurts me, honestly. but there's simply not enough meat in this book for me. it spent way too long explaining beginner concepts of linguistics - again, a personal complaint! not a knock against the book itself. it's just, this book was billed to me as the end-all-be-all of linguistics on the internet, and it simply wasn't that. there's so much more to internet linguistics - even stuff that mcculloch herself talks about on her blog! - that just wasn't mentioned at all here. idk if it was an issue with getting a publisher to actually accept it, but, i'd really love if this book had just an extra 100 pages to round out with even more stuff.