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Valerie Fridland: Use Bad English, Get Good Results

Blinkist Podcast - Interviews | Personal Development | Productivity | Business | Psychology

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The History of Women's Speech

Women tend to be at least a generation, if not more ahead of men in adopting new changes into the language. They often get demonized for overuse of a feature that's prevalent in their speech but not other people's because they're leaders in linguistic change. "Whatever traits and qualities have been associated with you historically or stereotypically get associated with your speech features," she says.

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