How algorithms are changing the way we speak

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  One of the beautiful and sometimes baffling things about the English language is that it's always changing.

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  Like, take the word riz, which means something like charisma.

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  Or the word skibbity, which kind of means anything or nothing, depending on how you use it.

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  A few years ago, words like these were little known or didn't even exist.

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  But today, they're understood and used by millions of people.

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  Now, don't worry if you don't count yourselves among them.

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  Because according to our guest today,

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  the English language is changing at a faster pace than ever before,

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  thanks to social media and algorithms.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Adrian Ma.

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  Today on the show, a conversation with linguist Adam Oleksik.

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  He's author of a recently published book called AlgoSpeak,

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  How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.

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  This was actually a book I picked for an episode we recently did on Econ Beach Reads.

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  And after the break,

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  we'll talk with Adam about how the business priorities of social media companies increasingly shape the way we speak,

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  both online and offline.

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  If you are a nerd for words, you might have come across Adam Alexic's videos on social media.

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  Fun fact, everybody has a completely unique emoji style, kind of like an emoji fingerprint,

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