Diamond Dust (Rebroadcast) - 31 October 2022
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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What Are Some Other Uses of Right?
Zachary: There are a lot of different ways to say right. If there's an overuse of that, then it is distracting, right? It takes away from it. So this is a prejudicial sentence tag. This is one where you are kind of forcing your opinion on the other interlocutors to use a specialty term. Right can gather in everyone who's there and have them focus their eyes and ears a little more carefully on what comes next.
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