Like, What? The Power and History of a Popular Phrase
“Like is a little word that we really, really don’t like at all—and we want to blame young girls, who we think are destroying the language,” she explains. But the truth is that like has been a part of English for more than two hundred years. “We can find speakers today in their seventies, eighties, and nineties around little villages in the United
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the era of "damn thats crazy", "yapping", and "who asked" actually killed off so many peoples ability to start and hold a conversation about their interests in a healthy manner
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Did you know: There are more than 7,000 spoken languages around the world? Cognitive scientist @leraboroditsky explains how language affects the way different cultures view time, direction, colors, numbers — and even logic!
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tedinstagram.comThis matters, because language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.
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