Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic says that teens use slang as a way to build identity. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis/Yahoo News; ...

How much has social media changed the way we talk and behave? That's the question linguist and content creator Adam Aleksic sets out to answer in his debut book "Algospeak." If you already know what ...

One of the beautiful and sometimes bewildering things about the English language is that it's always changing. I mean, take the words rizz or skibidi or even the expression, to cancel. It was fairly ...

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Maybe you’ve seen it in your own social media feeds, or you’ve noticed a younger person saying it: “unalive.” The word, commonly used to evade content filters that ding words like “murder” or “suicide ...

Adam Aleksic wants to make “linguistics cool again.” That may sound decidedly uncool, but the Harvard-educated linguist, influencer and author of Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future ...