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Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language

A viral linguist’s account of the ways our vocabularies are evolving, the Internet’s influence on communication, and what our use of language reveals about the modern world​.

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ABOUT

​Adam Aleksic is a 23-year-old linguist and content creator currently living in Manhattan. He is best known for creating educational linguistics videos to a following of over two million across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

Adam holds a linguistics degree from Harvard University, where he served as president of the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society. He's discussed online language on NPR, repeatedly contributed to the Washington Post, and his work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Economist, and The Guardian. He's lectured on language and social media at Stanford, Yale, Georgetown, and other top universities, including a TEDx talk at the University of Pennsylvania.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
These Video Game Terms Are Transforming Slang - Washington Post - June 2024
​Gen Z's New Punctuation - Washington Post - May 2024
How Gen Z Took Over Incel Slang - Washington Post - April 2024

You can also follow my writings on substack here.