Amanda Montell is the author of Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language. In 2016, I was offered a promo code to test out a new app designed to help young people talk without ...
Some months ago, one of my readers sent me an invaluable cache of recordings of family members during therapy sessions in the 1960s. They are ordinary, seemingly educated, white Northeasterners ...
For many speakers, saying “like,” like, all the time has become ubiquitous – or at least it feels that way to those who find it disdainful. Though it might seem like nails on a chalkboard to those not ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...
I’m listening to BBC Radio 1, where they are interviewing the 26-year-old actor and singer Dove Cameron about her globally successful hit, Boyfriend. The DJ, Melvin Odoom, asks her, “Do you think that ...
The latest series of the television show Love Island is over, with Amber and Greg now snuggling up as the most recent winners – at least until the winter version starts in January 2020. As well as ...
YouTube fixed a bug that caused the thumbs-up ‘Like’ icon to disappear. YouTube fixed a bug that caused the thumbs-up ‘Like’ icon to disappear. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...
Facebook has changed the way people do a lot of things online. For example, you probably notice yourself reflexively clicking "like" on anything your friends post on Facebook, even if it's just to ...