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SMNTY Classics: Feminism and the English Language with Wordslut

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Is There a Difference Between Black Women and White Men?

Linguists have found that young people tend to be quicker on the uptake of linguistic change than older generations. Young women are about half a generation ahead of young men when it comes to linguistic innovation, she says. She also addresses how so often African American English is criticized as being improper or poor grammar without acknowledging and this is something that you learn in linguistics. "That's a form of bilingualism that should be celebrated rather than condemned"

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