Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland
Factually! with Adam Conover
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The Importance of Race in American Life
A lot of our I think greatest language innovations come from marginalized groups throughout American history. Race is often a triggering impetus for impetus for change so is ethnicity and not only that but it could also be things like not necessarily ethnicity but other subcultures that are marginalized like drag culture. The word of the year this year was a suffix called usy which was the esophication who was one of the year was that mary and webster.
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