The Sunday Magazine Folgen

Something "weird" – or maybe something "brat" – seems to be happening with internet slang this summer. The language of the chronically-online is transcending TikTok and entering the political arena, with some potentially lasting, real world consequences. In the latest installment of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, Gen Z linguist Adam Aleksic tells Piya Chattopadhyay about the political and cultural force of memes and online language… and how it all shapes our popular lexicon.

Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with law professor Lisa Pruitt about how the white working class became a force in American politics, linguist Adam Aleksic spells out how online subcultures shape popular language, CBC Sports senior contributors Shireen Ahmed and Morgan Campbell reflect on the successes, controversies and surprises of the Paris Olympics, and historian Mary Beard shares lessons for our world from the Roman Empire.Discover more at https://www.cbc.ca/sunday

She has two Olympic golds and four podium finishes at the World Championships. But Caster Semenya can no longer compete in elite competition, all because of what's long defined the middle distance runner more than her athletic achievement: her gender. Semenya has higher testosterone levels than average women, which has made her a lightning rod in conversations around gender in sports for years. Now, she's telling her own story in a memoir called The Race to Be Myself. She joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about being the subject of debate in public and how she's keeping up her fight for all women to be respected and included in sports.