The terms, which started as online slang, are expected to have staying power.
As younger generations continue to adopt new slang, a familiar word has become a meanspirited adjective.
Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language.
Adrenaline rising? Patience waning? Gen Z embraces a slang term for familiar feelings.
Meet Ballerina Cappuccina and the Italian brain rot crew, an absurd group of A.I.-generated characters that are flooding TikTok.
Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
A varied assortment of words entered (or re-entered) the lexicon this year. How well do you know them?
When combined with innocuous acts, “rawdogging” has left its overtly sexual origins behind, just like many other dirty slang words of the past.
A new slang term with an old meaning emerges on TikTok.
Are you a “sigma”? Do you have “rizz”? The youngest generation is bamboozling its elders with terms all their own.
A playful (and not very scientific) examination of where love and language intersect.
A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak.