Episode 84 - Daria Bahtina and 'Gen Z slang'

Welcome to episode 84 of Lexis in which we have both an interview and a Lang in the News segment. Amanda and Dan talk to Dr Daria Bahtina, Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA about a lot of things, including: Generational slang and online vernacular Whether any slang is ever truly ‘meaningless’ The rapid pace of slang generation, diffusion and disappearance in an online…