07: Kids these days aren’t ruining language
Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
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Texting Skills and Literacy Skills of Young Students
i'm really interested in tracking the decline of whom and the bizarre circumstances under which people use it to try to sound fancy, even when it isn't. Just because people do use non standard forms in some contexts doesn't mean that they're actually bad at language. It keeps you playing around with language more and thinking about it more often. And i think that being reflextive with your own language ouse is something that can happen. You also have nn informal settings. These are very high stakes social interactions that you might get three friends to read over your text wit you inside. Do ou o you think thiys strike the right note? Like, is this what i
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