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Even without being consciously aware of it, people were aiming to be polite just as soon as they had the typing skills to do so.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
When your nerdy prof @xiaomanyc
rolls up to high school droppin’ straight Gen Alpha vibes! #SlangMaster #GenAlphaTakeover #LanguageNerd
medikationinstagram.comOne of my favorite scientific findings:
Some languages are very information dense and some less so. Some languages are spoken fast and some slow.
And it turns out that people around the world speak at about the same information rate (~39 bps) regardless.
Sumner L Normanx.comBecoming unLLMable with Sari Azout (Hyperlegible 011)
youtube.comSuch vocabulary was nicknamed “algospeak”: speech molded in the image of the algorithm.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Watch him flip the switch and become Mark Zuckerberg at 5sec
Here’s what’s happening:
(1) Prosody.
The tones and rhythm of your speech (like melody, for your voice).
Zuck’s voice is relatively flat but goes up at the end of phrases, and he inserts... See more
Lulu Cheng Meserveyx.com