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ICYMI - Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Alexia Fawcett, a PhD candidate in linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and Kendra Calhoun, an assistant professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Calhoun and Fawcett wrote a presentation titled, “They edited out her nip-nops: Linguistic innovation as textual censorship avoidance on TikTok,” which explored both the ways in which and the reason behind why users have developed language like “unalived” and “seggs.” 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.

This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim.


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to ICYMI.

0:16.8

In case you missed it, Slates Podcasts about Internet culture, and y'all, we've done it.

0:23.2

We've made it through another week.

0:24.6

I'm not going to lie every Monday a question, whether I'll make it, and every Saturday.

0:31.0

I'm like, here I am, undefeated, in the battle against the work week.

0:35.9

As are y'all, give it up for us.

0:37.4

Let's give ourselves a little golf clap.

0:45.8

You might notice that once again, I am on my own, pretending he's beside me.

0:51.5

All alone, I walk with him till morning, that's a gift for y'all, lay miz heads out there.

0:55.6

I know you are out there.

0:57.1

I hear you.

0:58.3

I see you.

0:59.6

But yes, Candace is still out there doing the investigative work of our generation.

1:05.4

I'm hearing rumors that she has infiltrated the bath and bodywork see sweet.

1:11.0

Though obviously we cannot confirm that information.

1:15.0

Candace, if you're listening, we're all with you.

1:18.6

Bring back the goods.

1:20.5

The country apple hand sanitizer.

1:22.6

In the meantime, we are back to basics, which is me using this show to complain about something,

1:27.7

and then somehow turning that complain into a very informative episode.

1:31.0

But actually, this time, it's not just me complaining because today's episode is a

1:35.5

read receipt properly pronounced.

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