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Where Online Lingo Comes From, How to Reinforce Good Habits, Gym Class Fallout, and Why Glue Doesn’t Stick to the Bottle

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Learn about a massive Twitter analysis that shows where your favorite online lingo came from; how to reinforce good habits with temptation bundling; how gym class when you were a kid might affect your exercise habits today; and why glue doesn’t stick to the bottle.

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0:00.0

Happy Sunday. It's going to have some fun and get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.0

From the editorial team at curiosity.com, I'm Codygoth.

0:08.0

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:09.0

Today, you learn about a massive Twitter analysis that shows where your favorite online lingo came from, how to reinforce

0:14.8

good habits with temptation bundling, and how gym class when you were a kid might affect your

0:19.5

exercise habits today.

0:20.9

We'll also answer a listener question about why glue doesn't stick to the bottle.

0:24.7

Stay tuned for the answer.

0:25.9

Let's set us have some curiosity on the award-winning curiosity daily.

0:29.2

O.M.G. I DK if you've heard, but internet slang is totts lit these days.

0:35.0

It's so big, phrases like TLDR and Woot are showing up in dictionaries.

0:40.0

If you've ever wondered WTF happen to make these words show up in the first place,

0:44.4

three researchers have you covered. They just analyzed nearly a billion tweets

0:48.7

to find out where your favorite online lingo came from. This study is Big A F. And they didn't just do it for the

0:55.0

lulls, did they? No, they did not. So for this study, linguists collected

0:59.7

980 million tweets made up of 8.9 billion words that had been posted across the United States between 2013 and 2014.

1:08.0

In order to find new and emerging words, they combed through the data to spot ones that were very uncommon at the start of 2013 and became more popular as the year went on,

1:17.0

leaving out proper nouns like time hop and dictionary words like feminists.

1:21.0

They ended up with 81 words, then sorted them out for variant

1:25.2

spellings of the same term, then ended up with a final total of 54 words.

1:30.3

Then they mapped out how often each word was used in a variety of locations

1:35.0

across the US so they could figure out where they were first used and how they

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