From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways.
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Contemporary, warm, cool and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Adam Aleksic
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593804070
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