Visits: 29 An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary …
Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
Visits: 20 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. To hear some people on …
What Does Simp Mean?
Visits: 25 The word “simp” isn’t new. In fact, it’s pretty old. But it has been dragged into fresh popularity. In the same way that older songs can find new audiences on TikTok, older slang emerges on the app to …