
472: Arguing for the Good in Bad English with Valerie Fridland
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The Importance of Umbs and Us
There have been two volumes and maybe one another volume will still come out. There were some that absolutely just had to be in there because those are the ones that are so common in the complaints people bring to me. So for example, dude, my son, I have a teenager, a teenage son. It was shocking how much dude came out of his mouth. And it made me really wonder about, well, why is he doodling? What's the point? And why is it affect him so early? The history of language of English shows us that’s not true at all.
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