Greetings from Scotland!
I am here ahead of the sold-out fifth night of my UK tour. It has been amazing so far, and I can’t wait to keep going. John Nelson has been a perfect host, and I’m excited that Joe Folley will fill in for him at the Manchester show. Tickets are still available!
Adam Aleksic is known online as the Etymology Nerd. His videos are extremely popular, covering all kinds of things you didn’t know you wanted to know about language and word origins.
He joins me for his second appearance on Within Reason to discuss his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Will Social Media End Local Languages?
7:49 - Why Does Language Change?
13:53 - What is Algospeak?
21:15 - We Worship Our Phones
26:18 - Upcoming Slang to Invest In
32:08 - Online Slang That Never Quite Caught On
37:30 - Introducing Adam to British Slang
45:55 - The Origins of Language
56:04 - Punctuation in Text Messaging
01:05:06 - The Latin Mass and Hocus Pocus
01:12:26 - The Message of Algospeak
