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Why is Our Vocabulary Changing So Much?
The new vocabulary is sometimes called algospeak.
Melina Delkic • Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
As soon as older people start using online slang popularized by young people on TikTok, the terms “become obsolete,” said Nicole Holliday, an assistant professor of linguistics at Pomona College. “Once the parents have it, you have to move on to something else.”
Melina Delkic • Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
The pace at which we’re creating new words, then recontextualizing their meanings in hyperbolic, meme, and joke formats, is moving faster than ever before, in our age of relentless online discourse.