ICYMI - Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
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🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 41 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 | I made you think you was real. |
| 0:02.0 | My name is Caden Sinclair. |
| 0:04.0 | Some people call us American royalty. |
| 0:06.0 | We were liars. |
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| 0:09.0 | We were happy. We wanted for nothing. |
| 0:12.0 | Based on the best-selling novel. |
| 0:15.0 | Something terrible happened last summer, |
| 0:17.0 | and I have no memory of what or who hurt me. |
| 0:20.0 | No one in my family will tell me. |
| 0:22.7 | When you're left for dead, you want answers. |
| 0:25.2 | We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 0:46.6 | In case you missed it, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:50.4 | And y'all, we've done it. |
| 0:52.8 | We've made it through another week. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm not going to lie, every Monday I question whether I'll make it. |
| 0:59.1 | And every Saturday, I'm like, here I am undefeated in the battle against the work week. |
| 1:05.7 | As are y'all, give it up for us. |
| 1:07.2 | Let's give ourselves little golf clap. |
| 1:20.5 | You might notice that once again, I am on my own, pretending he's beside me. |
| 1:25.4 | All alone, I walk with him till morning. That's a gift for y'all lay misheads out there. |
| 1:29.0 | I know you are out there. I hear you. I see you. But yes, Candice is still out there doing the investigative work of our generation. |
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