Adam Oleksik

I got super into it.

And then I just started like really studying it more for myself.

I started a little website in high school.

I studied linguistics in college.

And then I was graduating with a linguistics degree.

And I was like, well, what do I do now?

So I started making linguistics content and then actively sort of studying the language of the social media space as I was in it.

And then wrote a book, Algo Speak, on how social media is changing language.

And then that ended up getting me the TED Talk.

No, and our language has always evolved around the constraints of a medium, right?

Before we had written history, we would rely on oral tradition.

We would tell stories through rhyme and meter.

And then we started writing things down.

The places that used leaves to write things down developed curly scripts because that was better for the leaves.

And the places that used...

clay and stone to write things down develop rigid scripts so again the medium is literally shaping language we have chapter books we have the internet internet allows for this written replication of informal speech it's again kind of a paradigm shift in how we speak and i think algorithms are that new paradigm shift ai is a new paradigm shift we're in this like really fast-paced moment where our language is rerouting around these new mediums we're interacting with

Yeah, well, it's really good for me that I am kind of studying things in the open.

I make videos about phenomena I'm observing.

And then I get, like, tagged in videos where people are using new words.

It's sort of crazy in that sense.