DECEMBER 14 — It is December, which means that the season of Spotify Wrapped has arrived while for Apple Music users, it is Apple Music Replay. As a linguist, I look forward to...
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As an academic who is in between two generations, I use and can relate to both millennial and Gen Z slangs. Trends in language are, afterall, reflective of human experiences and realities. This goes to show that language shapes and is shaped by reality. Language users co-create, re-create and enhance meanings in daily interactions, which consequently, lead to certain trends in language use.
Over time, words evolve; sometimes, new words are added and sometimes, existing ones receive an extension of meaning or senses. How did we go from a fun word in 2023 to such a depressing word this year? Let’s unpack this together. When Henry David Thoreau, a 19th-century philosopher first used the word in 1854, he used it to criticise society’s devaluation of complex ideas.
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