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Valerie Fridland: Use Bad English, Get Good Results

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

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Ben Schumann-Solar: We are going to talk about bad English today. He says it wasn't until really the 18th century that standardization and grammar books even existed. And most of those books were written by people in the upper class. They were a very specific set of people, he says. But today we have a linguist, Valerie Friedland who wrote this book with a really great title. It's called like literally dude. She wants us to understand that just because we dislike something doesn't mean its bad English.

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