The Differences Between Speech and Writing

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"I think that languages as you say it's socially determined and when someone says there's a right and way wrong way they're really making a statement about the about society," he said. "We need more conventions in writing than we need in speech but I want to clarify that speech has a lot of rules so I think a lot of times people misconstrued what I'm saying to mean okay we don't have to have rules when we talk it's not important"

Language changes, and that's not a bad thing! This week, Adam is joined by sociolinguist Valerie Fridland to uncover how language is much more malleable than we're led to believe, and how the resistance against new slang often disguises an attempt to limit the influence of marginalized communities. Pick up Valerie's book at factuallypod.com/books

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