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entertaining video on the collapse of sociolinguistics

words are being diluted through semantic diffusion and pushed by influencers who are deemed as "authoritative figures" of the internet, to the point of acceptance of new definitions no matter how subtle

these volatile definitions are then enforced by echo chambers and algorithms, which means two different people of different algorithms might have different definitions of the same word

we are all technically speaking the same language (english), but our meanings are of our own ecosystems (groups)

"social media has a stranglehold on the vocabulary of its heavy users"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkBgnfn9Y7g