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Furthermore, the shared experience of popular music creates a generational lingua franca. The slang that enters the lexicon via hip-hop or TikTok trends is a form of live, evolving language acquisition. Your first teacher for the word "ghost" as a verb (to abruptly cut off communication) wasn't an English textbook; it was entertainment content.

Before formal education had its turn, popular media was shaping curiosity, vocabulary, empathy, and critical thinking.

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