Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’
Taylor Lorenzwashingtonpost.comThis has turned communicators of all kinds – from fashion influencers to public health specialists – into Kremlinologists who obsessively analyze the behavior of social media algorithms in the hopes of learning how to please them and (more importantly) how to avoid their punishments.
Hence algospeak. Social media users have learned the hard way that... See more
Hence algospeak. Social media users have learned the hard way that... See more
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