Author and self-described “etymology nerd” Adam Aleksic is a linguist and educational podcaster with an audience of two million. His book Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language is a timely volume in this era of incessant new word coinage, grammar police, emojis, segmented-market slang and fluid linguistic rules. Aleksic demystifies the myriad forces—societal, technological and beyond—that contribute to the ever-mutable landscape of our language, social media’s role in those changes, and our own roles and responsibilities where language is concerned.
Fri, July 18, 6pm, $22
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park
