TikTok Language Rabbit Hole

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🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Spectacular Vernacular, Nicole Holliday shows Ben Zimmer an entertaining TikTok video that does some fascinating things with language. They also interview Norma Mendoza-Denton, professor of anthropology at UCLA, about her recently published article “ ‘Sticking It to the Man’: r/wallstreetbets, Generational Masculinity and Revenge in Narratives of our Dystopian Capitalist Age.” And finally, a listener joins us for some wordplay that will put your geography skills to the test. We hope you’re ready! You could win a year’s membership to Slate Plus. Do you have any language questions or fun facts to share? Email us at [email protected]. Produced by Jasmine Ellis and Cheyna Roth. Subscribe to Slate Plus. It’s only $1 for the first month. To learn more, go to slate.com/spectacularplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	This episode of Spectacular vernacular contains explicit language.
1:07.2	Hello, I'm Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
1:10.5	And I'm Nicole Holiday, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:14.2	And this is Spectacular for an Accular, a podcast where we not only explore language,
1:19.5	we also play with it.
1:20.8	This week we'll be talking to Professor Norma Mendoza Denton about her new article,
1:25.5	about how the language of young investors and Reddit is all about sticking it to the
1:30.2	man.
1:31.2	And we'll be quizzing one of our listeners with some word play.
1:33.6	Then I have a really important question for you.
1:36.6	What's your relationship with TikTok?
1:38.4	TikTok, wow.
1:39.6	I guess you could call me a casual observer of TikTok.
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