Adam Aleksic

"That's the book that got me into etymology. I read that in 2016 and I was like, 'This shit is gas.' And I just started reading more etymology books"

"my first like moment going viral on TikTok was me presenting my dolphin language"

"I think people should pay more attention to Brave New World, the Aldous Huxley novel where we're entertaining ourselves"

"I think people should all read this guy, Irving Goffman. and he's a sociologist from the 1960s and he comes up with this uh great book, the presentation of the self in everyday life"

"I took a conlanging class at MIT actually that kind of got me into it"

"For my educational influencer accent, probably it's highly influenced by people like Hank Green or something, Vsauce"

"67 was voted word of the year in 2025 from Dictionary.com"

"There was a study by Know Your Meme in 2022 that found where words come from over time by percentage of platforms"

"For my educational influencer accent, probably it's highly influenced by people like Hank Green or something, Vsauce"

"There's like they were the early educational influencers and they're probably copying people like Bill Nye or something"

"I love this book Braiding Sweetgrass. In it there's uh the podawatami expression to be a Saturday"

"we see this in movies like there's a Dothraki language and a Klingon language"

"we see this in movies like there's a Dothraki language and a Klingon language"

"So ChatGPT uses the word delve 10 times more than regular because there is a bias in the reinforcement learning process"

"Esperanto is another famous one where they tried to make that a global language and didn't really work out"

"There are memecoin traders and Polymarket traders who are trying to make a quick buck off of pushing certain words or ideas"

"It started out mostly on 4chan and Reddit and Twitter. And now it's mostly TikTok and Twitter"

"Cornell is doing amazing bird stuff. They have a bird tracking app that they actually use to follow bird migrations"