Review: Algospeak by Adam Aleksic

 I read this courtesy Alfred A. Knopf and NetGalley. This was a delight. This is the kind of book that gets discussed over dinner and at parties and makes you wonder about how language is changing. Linguist Adam Aleksic goes over how social media and the internet are changing language by jumping through hoops to avoid algorithms, to start with. Aleksic shows how new slang comes about and either settles into society immediately, or burns bright and hot and then vanishes almost immediately, except as an afterthought (23 skidoo, anyone?). New words, new grammatical rules, and more changes the language in front of us, and it’s amazing to watch. This book tells you what you can expect, suggests what you might see, and makes language a wonder.

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