Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s known as the “TikTok voice” or “influencer accent”. It combines uptalk (the rising intonation that makes every statement ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...