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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In episode 1935, Jack and Miles are joined by linguist and author of Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language, Adam Aleksic AKA Etymology Nerd, to discuss… Who Makes Our Language? America’s Kids Ain’t Able To Read Good Or Math Good, Words As Windows Into History, What Is Even Sincere Expression In The Age Of Algorithmic Language And Content? And more!
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| 0:00.0 | What is the etymology of the Dream Blunt rotation? I wonder. Who came up with Dream Blunt? Shakespeare. That was actually Shakespeare. Doders are very creative, I guess. Yeah, right? I'll have to look more into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I was an etymologist, I'd just always be like, Shakespeare, man. Right, right. That's the fallback. Oh, you didn't read that one? Well, guess who's stupid now? It's you. Or is it always just to be like, it's Latin, dog. Yeah, I mean, nowadays, it's either Kaisenot or Latin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, what is Kaisenot? What's Kaisenot is our Shakespeare? fear. What's Kaiser not given to us in the main show? Like Riz, huss, phantom tax, |
| 0:41.5 | like, Wait, what is Kaisen? Not is our Shakespeare. What's Kaisenot given to us in the major? |
| 0:39.3 | Like Riz, Huss, Phantom Tax, like all the popular Gen Alpha words. |
| 0:43.3 | Oh, really? |
| 0:44.4 | I didn't realize that. |
| 0:45.5 | Wait, what is Phantom Tax? |
| 0:47.9 | It's like the same sense is like taxing someone's food. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:53.3 | It's just like stealing someone's food. |
| 0:54.9 | And do I have Riz? |
| 0:58.7 | You have to ask. |
| 1:00.9 | You have it, right? |
| 1:02.8 | I live by a junior high, and whenever I walk out when or walk by |
| 1:06.2 | by when the school gets out, they all call me like, hey, dickhead. |
| 1:10.0 | But I think that's like, cool. |
| 1:11.3 | That's cool. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, new slang word. |
| 1:12.9 | It means you really cool. |
| 1:14.0 | That's what I fucking thought. |
| 1:15.6 | See, my partner thinks they're just, it's bad. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm like, nah. |
| 1:19.1 | I'm like, that's right, dude. |
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