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Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Change in Language in Young Speakers

Buddy is being replaced by one and especially among younger speakers you see very few younger speakers say everybody somebody nobody in fact almost all of them say everyone someone no one. When we look now at older speakers we find that starting to creep into older speakers speech so these are actually the more substantive types of change that young people bring into our language. These are really cool things that we don't even realize we're doing and then they work their way into our language because young people started themYeah that is how language change happens. think I would think I use let's say everyone was there everybody was there I'm not sure which I'd use more often to be honest I'm sorry to not have

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