OtherFor EverybodyRoxie PellDecember 15, 2015 …you ask them, ‘Why are you so upset?’, and they can’t answer you. For the New Yorker, Adrienne Raphael talks to linguist David Crystal about our age of abbreviation. Share Tweet Share Roxie Pell Roxie Pell is a student at Wesleyan University, where she writes for Wesleying and The Argus and tweets hilarious nuggets of pure wisdom @jonathnfranzen. You May Also Like Read Rumpus Events January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail The RumpusDecember 20, 2024 Read What to Read When What to Read When You Don’t Want to Write Weike WangDecember 6, 2024 Read Rumpus Events The Rumpus Prize The RumpusDecember 5, 2024 Read Rumpus Events December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail The RumpusNovember 15, 2024