Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Importance of Ease in Speech
Even the most prigish people who want to criticize marginalized speech end up adopting those words. There's an edginess and a counter-culturist that we tend to find associated with that kind of speech forms. When words like jazz or woke start to get picked up and move more mainstream we almost forget where they came from.
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