Sociolinguist says ‘bad English’ can be, like, literally good

Language is constantly evolving. One generation's slang might be the next generation's everyday speech or it might have fallen completely out of fashion. For some people, using language in a way other than how they learned it is just incorrect, but others argue it's just the way language works.

A professor of linguistics joined The 21st to talk about how she thinks "bad" English is good.

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Valerie Fridland

Author, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English | Professor of linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno | Columnist, “Language in the Wild,” Psychology Today

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