Despite All the Likes, Literallys, and Dropped G’s, English Isn’t Decaying Before Our Eyes
This article was written by Valerie M. Fridland, a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, for The Conversation - a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of researchers and scientists, under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As a linguistics professor, I’m often asked why English is decaying before our eyes, whether it’s “like” being used promiscuously, t’s being dropped deleteriously, or “literally” being deployed nonliteral
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