07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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What Is Perception Bias?
People have been complaining about the way people talk for a very long time. But what i also find quite fascinating is often the things that people complain about aren't necessarily just done by young people. Alexandra darcy, and she's a linguist at university victoria in nbc,. And she has done a whole bunch of stuff about like. She's looked at different peoples uses of it, perceptions of it. So basically, the like english we have now s maybe a third lexical items borrowed from french. Would just upset this guy a lot. This guy was really mad. They barbarize them both and speak neither good french nor good English - known as modernEnglish.
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