Hey, this is Flora Lickman, and you're listening to Science Friday.

Today in the show, Decoding Lingua Interneta.

So I have like a fast-paced, high-stress influencer accent.

And then there's people, you know, the standard lifestyle influencer, like, hey guys, welcome to Science Friday.

Like that's like sort of, but that's also good for attention.

I feel like you're trolling me.

On my skibbity, we have a linguistic Rizzler here to tell us why my diction is giving Ohio.

If that's brain rot to you, my next guest argues it's actually the future of language.

Today we're talking about

AlgoSpeak, how algorithms are shaping the way that we write and talk and think with Adam Alexic.

He's a TikToker, a language nerd, and the author of AlgoSpeak, how social media is transforming

the future of language. And he's based in New York.

Adam, welcome to Science Friday.

Hi, Flora. You might be the first person to ever call me a linguistic Rizzler.

I'm going to take that as a compliment, but you can tell me why it's actually a dis. Did I use it

correctly? I guess younger people wouldn't quite say that because we're already here.

It's leading into cringe humor, I suppose.

We're one second into this interview.

Okay, tell me how would the young kids?

How would the young folks use it?

Well, it's like there's always a layer of irony, right?

So, the Rizzler is like a character on TikTok, and it's funny because everybody knows

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