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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Black Twitter to White Boy Pipeline for Language
The black twitter to white boy pipeline for language is one that is not lost on me massive words like bus in no cap um. We actually find a lot of hip hop lyrics being used in criminal trials to the detriment of defendant usually because of misinterpretation. If we look at research on when defendants or witnesses use African-American English when giving their depositions or when being a witness at a trial or when speaking on their own behalf the outcomes for them tend to be much more negative than the outcomes for a speaker that would have used more mainstream English.
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