#136 “Grammar Girl” Mignon Fogarty on How to Make Grammar Less Boring

How can you make grammar “less boring” to learn?


Mignon Fogarty, founder of the platform Quick and Dirty Tips and
of the beloved Grammar Girl podcast, comes onto the Language
Hacking podcast to help answer this question. She tells Benny how
Grammar Girl was born from having to look up grammar rules often
as part of her job, and how she grew her podcast into a
successful business.


Mignon then explains how language evolution tends to emerge
primarily from younger people, hence why using social media to
stay on top of grammar evolution is completely valid! She and
Benny discuss changes in the English language, including the
emotional weight of punctuation online, and how social media can
be the number one resource for fun language facts.


(PS: Listen to this episode if you wonder what kind of experience
in life you need to become a polyglot. Benny explains how his
background in engineering helps him face language learning in a
more productive way.)


Mentioned in this Episode


Grammar Girl Podcast

Quick and Dirty Tips

Mignon’s twitter

Mignon’s TikTok

Benny’s main TikTok



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