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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

Modern Wisdom

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The Impact of Social Media on Language

Social media has changed massively our communication networks and how we talk to each other. Social media doesn't invent anything but what it does is disseminates it so once it gets in a place where it's done by someone who has some sort of quality or emotional resonance with people then they do something cool with their language. I would say that the impact social media has is one of dissemination not innovation so no one is doing things on social media and starting a trend in terms of language change, he says.

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