Why Gen Alpha Keeps Repeating Random Slang on Loop

Why Gen Alpha Keeps Repeating Random Slang on Loop

Experts explain why your kid keeps shouting random slang—and when it's just a phase versus something to pay closer attention to.PARENTS/ GETTY IMAGES A group of students are laughing and talking.I have two kids: one is Gen Z and the other is Gen Alpha. This means my house is filled with all kinds of slang that I don’t understand at all. Thankfully, I have been spared the “ballerina cappucina” talk (my condolences if you haven’t). But there’s a w…

Linguist Gives Complete Speech to High School Students in Gen Alpha Slang

Arieh Smith, who goes by the online pseudonym of Xiaomanyc, is a polyglot who picks up languages incredibly easily. Among other languages, he has a nearly native command of Mandarin Chinese. He teaches it online using his sophisticated knowledge of the way that languages work.In this video, he first delivers a speech to high school students using Gen Alpha slang, which is helpfully subtitled for Gen Xers like me. Then he gives another speech, al…