ICYMI: Is Algospeak D@ngerous?
On today\u2019s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by\xa0Alexia Fawcett,\xa0a PhD candidate in linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and\xa0Kendra Calhoun, an assistant professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Calhoun and Fawcett wrote a presentation titled, \u201cThey edited out her nip-nops: Linguistic innovation as textual censorship avoidance on TikTok,\u201d which explored both the ways in which and the reason behind why users have developed language like \u201cunalived\u201d and \u201cseggs.\u201d And while these neologisms originate on TikTok, their increasingly-wide adoption is causing concern among observers who notice a perhaps unnecessarily-broad softening of language across social media.\nThis podcast is produced by Se\u2019era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices