105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are an evolving genre of media: short-form, vertical videos that take up your whole screen and are served to you from an algorithm rather than who you follow. This changes how people talk in them compared to earlier forms of video, and linguists are on it! In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch gets enthusiastic about the linguistics of tiktok with Adam Aleksic, better known on social media as etymologynerd. We talk about how Adam got his start into linguistics via etymology, the process that he goes through to make his current videos get...

105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd

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