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Where Online Lingo Comes From, How to Reinforce Good Habits, Gym Class Fallout, and Why Glue Doesn’t Stick to the Bottle

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This chapter explores a comprehensive analysis of nearly a billion tweets to uncover how online lingo originates and spreads. It reveals that West Coast slang, heavily influenced by African-American English, tends to circulate within cultural regions before becoming popular across the nation.

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