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Key takeaways from Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home

When people share a space, their collective experience can sprout its own vocabulary, known as a "familect." Open at source

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During the pandemic, we’ve spent dramatically more time in those quarters, and our in-group slang has changed accordingly.

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