Codeswitching and the Language of Social Media

Recently, I spent a weekend seeing friends and family in San Diego. I have a very diverse group of loved ones down there from multiple cultures and age groups.

Without thinking, I was automatically switching from English to Spanish to Mandarin and back. In linguistics, they call this code-switching. Code-switching how those of us connect with other people, by using the language that they are most familiar with.

I started thinking about another type of language: digital and social media. In rece...