
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


If "unalive," "seggs" and "rizz" are all foreign-sounding words to you... perhaps you're not fluent in algopeak. That refers to the way language is being shaped by algorithms, censorship and the relentless drive to go viral. For the latest instalment of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, linguist and influencer Adam Aleksic tells Piya Chattopadhyay about how online culture is transforming the way we speak and communicate in unprecedented ways – and whether we're simply all "cooked."
By CBC4.2
4747 ratings
If "unalive," "seggs" and "rizz" are all foreign-sounding words to you... perhaps you're not fluent in algopeak. That refers to the way language is being shaped by algorithms, censorship and the relentless drive to go viral. For the latest instalment of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, linguist and influencer Adam Aleksic tells Piya Chattopadhyay about how online culture is transforming the way we speak and communicate in unprecedented ways – and whether we're simply all "cooked."

423 Listeners

112 Listeners

370 Listeners

52 Listeners

367 Listeners

221 Listeners

808 Listeners

69 Listeners

21 Listeners

26 Listeners

21 Listeners

166 Listeners

111 Listeners

239 Listeners

444 Listeners

16 Listeners

30 Listeners

234 Listeners

9 Listeners

99 Listeners

343 Listeners

4 Listeners

25 Listeners

65 Listeners

113 Listeners

4 Listeners

5 Listeners

3 Listeners

23 Listeners

6 Listeners