LLMs are changing spoken English: people now say 'elide' and 'load-bearing' out loud
peterjliu · x · 2026-09-10
peterjliu observes people increasingly using words like "earn its keep," "elide," and "load-bearing" in actual speech, not just writing — likely absorbed from LLM outputs — and calls for a new term for when language models reshape human language.
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