When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

A college of various internet slang: "brat" (top left), "demure" (top right), "rizz" (bottom left), and "crash out" (bottom right). "What they talkin' 'bout? They ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'" I'm sure ...

Millennials and Gen-Zers of the world have really taken technology and run with it, which is understandable considering they grew up with it at their fingertips. Although sometimes it's difficult to ...

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary hit shelves this November, words that were once defined in basements, at the bar stool or on Urban Dictionary’s back pages got the official legacy lexicographical ...

Do you find yourself scratching your head when your friends send you texts filled with trendy terms? The ever-evolving world of internet slang can leave you feeling lost, but fear not! Here’s a quick ...

For about as long as the internet has existed, it’s been used for illicit activity. Before e-commerce ballooned into a multi-trillion dollar industry, the first deal facilitated by the internet was a ...

In order to keep up with the ever-evolving lexicon of Internet slang, the FBI has been maintaining a glossary of Internet-isms, if you will; today, it is 83 pages long, contains nearly 3,000 terms, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The VSCO girl trend, a contemporary rehashing of "valley girls," rose almost as quickly as it fell, but the phrases popularized alongside the ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

If there's one thing we know about the deep corners of the World Wide Web, it's that language on the Internet often does not resemble any other language known to humankind. Words get shortened; ...

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