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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The History of Ahoy and Hi
Linguistics is a cross between sociology and linguistic anthropology so we look back in time that's really cool some of the old socio-historical linguistics. We try to recreate how sound change happened by looking at written documents but in modern speech I get to go out and interview people and figure out what they're doing differently. You delete your arse post-vocalically have you've not noticed that when he says I'm like the instead of there or here you don't have your arse you have that'll.
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