Hi! I have been lurking here for over a year but I've been too shy to participate until now. I'm 14, and I've been homeschooled all my life. I like math and physics and psychology, and I've learned lots of interesting things here. I really enjoyed reading the sequences last year. I've also been to some meetups in my city and the people there (despite – or maybe because of – being twice my age) are very cool. Thank you all for existing!
I really don't know much about popular music, but I'm guessing that music from video games is getting more popular now, because when I ask people what they are humming they usually say it's a song from a game. But maybe those songs are just more humm-able, and the songs that I hear people humming are not a representative sample of all the songs that they listen to.
About updating the language, if you mean the abbreviations and phrases that people use in texts, I think that people do it so that they don't sound overly formal. Sometimes writing a complete sen... (read more)
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