07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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Is It Randomly Inserted?
The evolution of like shows that people are really clever at language and thait's a very creative thing to do. The coolthing about quotative like is that you can use it to introduce something that's not a direct quoe. So an older person may use like in many similar ways. Thut it flies under the radar. Tim linguists are pretty hard por, i think she means dead from old age. U, i i going to start saying like more, just in case every linguist of my quaintance posted about this thene like we are hard core. We're tolerably hard cor.
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