Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic says that teens use slang as a way to build identity. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis/Yahoo News; ...

Adam Aleksic wants to make “linguistics cool again.” That may sound decidedly uncool, but the Harvard-educated linguist, influencer and author of Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future ...

The “Reheat Nachos” slang term essentially implies that a person is trying to recreate or emulate something another person has done before. This is usually related to things celebrities or influencers ...

Meredith Grey’s on-again, off-again relationship with Dr. Derek “McDreamy” Shepherd on the early seasons of Grey’s Anatomy gave us more than great TV: It also sparked one of the most enduring slang ...

Language is constantly evolving, but when you get to be of a—let's say parental—age, it sure feels like it starts evolving a lot faster than it used to. Add in the instantaneous speed and ...

Are you cooked if you don't know what cooked means? Chances are, you've been exposed to this slang term used constantly over the last year, and its popularity continues to rise. It's taken over social ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a lot of talk about the “generation gap.” The gap was understood to be a matter of culture and values, but the reality is that much of it was just about language ...