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472: Arguing for the Good in Bad English with Valerie Fridland

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There are three different new likes that are coming in. The one we don't like is when it's used as sort of an approximating adverbial. We dislike the fact that young and especially women, female youth tend to use it much more than older speakers do. But remember when I was talking about the prepositional conjunction uses where it signals similarity? It actually serves exactly the same function.

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