
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Instead of criticizing deviations from Standard English as "wrong," what if we celebrated them as expressive lingusitic innovations? In this conversation with Valerie, we take a look at some of the quirky features of English that our language teachers taught us to avoid, and in true Words for Granted fashion, we attempt to understand how and why they emerged. To buy Valerie's new book, "Like Literally, Dude," click here.
4.8
227227 ratings
Instead of criticizing deviations from Standard English as "wrong," what if we celebrated them as expressive lingusitic innovations? In this conversation with Valerie, we take a look at some of the quirky features of English that our language teachers taught us to avoid, and in true Words for Granted fashion, we attempt to understand how and why they emerged. To buy Valerie's new book, "Like Literally, Dude," click here.
2,230 Listeners
7,827 Listeners
2,822 Listeners
77,214 Listeners
22,143 Listeners
6,317 Listeners
8,741 Listeners
10,643 Listeners
631 Listeners
111,470 Listeners
47 Listeners
28,389 Listeners
15,336 Listeners
6 Listeners
453 Listeners