A viral linguist’s account of the ways our vocabularies are evolving, the Internet’s influence on communication, and what our use of language reveals about the modern world From the rise of leetspeak and words such as As< <Aleksic uses original surveys, data, and Internet archival research to usher us through this new linguistic landscape, he also illuminates how communication is changing in both familiar and unprecedented ways. From our use of emojis to sentence structure to the ways younger generations talk about sex and death (see <unalive <in English and <desvivirse <in Spanish), we are in a brand-new world, one shaped by algorithms and technology. <Algospeak <is an energetic, astonishing journey into language, the Internet, and what this intersection means for all of us.

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ADAM ALEKSIC graduated in 2023 with a degree in linguistics from Harvard, where he served as president of the Harvard Linguistics Society. He’s discussed online language on NPR, and his work has appeared in the Washington Post and has been mentioned in The Guardian, HuffPost and The Daily Beast. He’s lectured on language and social media at Georgetown and has forthcoming lectures at Stanford and UPenn, which will be a TEDx talk. Based in New York, Adam has spent the last year traveling the world, finding #etymology content wherever he goes.