Why We Need The New Rosetta Stone for Gen Z
As soon as older people start using online slang popularized by young people on TikTok, the terms “become obsolete,” said Nicole Holliday, an assistant professor of linguistics at Pomona College. “Once the parents have it, you have to move on to something else.”
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But at the end of the day, many of these problems can be what I’d call content problems—problems with how the language itself operates (how to conjugate verbs, structure sentences, acquire
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have reinforced racism and stereotypes, and have made it difficult to engage in collective and liberatory practices regarding resourcing and supporting our families and communities.
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Today, those one-year-olds are ten to twelve. A four-year-old in 2011 is now well on her way to adulthood. These once unintelligible media consumers now spend money directly on content. Some are already creating content themselves. And while these kids now understand why we found their frames of reference so amusing, we still struggle to understand... See more