My parents spend half of the year on an island off the coast of North Carolina where many of the residents speak a distinct and alienating dialect of English—the Ocracoke or “Hoi Toider” brogue, which ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you are parenting in 2025 and your kid owns a device, you might recognize this real-life convo as just ...

Click-bait and other attention-grabbing online content can cause brain rot in large language models, a new study finds. Brain rot isn’t just for humans anymore. The thoroughly modern affliction also ...

IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

"To be, or not to be, that is the question." So mused Hamlet in Shakespeare’s timeless prose, a line that has echoed through centuries as a pinnacle of linguistic elegance. Fast forward to 2024: ...

Experts say if you have the ability to translate "Gen Alpha brain rot” slang, it can be a lucrative side hustle to earn six figures in some cases. Language has always been a form of currency, and if ...

Recently, my wife was texting with a friend who lives in Singapore. The news from the other side of the world turned out to be that kids there had discovered “six seven.” On Halloween, our friend ...

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The term "brain rot" refers to how low-quality internet content may slow your brain function. It's usually tied to watching specific types of content, usually nonsensical, embarrassing, or weird. But ...