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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Evolution of Language
The original purpose of language was to allow communication in a small group. When you get larger groups of speakers, then the rules become more opaque for adults and they transmit those inconsistencies to their children who then acquire this sort of simpler morphosintax. All language change works that way that it bends. Basically old people don't pick up new tricks. We're kind of like old dogs. We just don't do it.
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