Hidden Brain

Episode 57: Slanguage

loading...

January 09, 2017 11:00pm

24m

Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it has pretty much always driven older people crazy. But the linguist John McWhorter says all the "likes" and LOLs are part of a natural – and inevitable –evolution of language. This week on Hidden Brain, why language can't "sit still."