A scholar who finds the good in ‘bad’ English
by Melissa Mohr
May 08, 2023
2 minutes
How do you, like, react when people use “like” a lot? Do you sometimes find yourself saying “I’m walkin’ to the store,” or do you always enunciate the full “ing”? Do certain adverbial intensifiers literally make your skin crawl?
I spoke with sociolinguist Valerie Fridland about her
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