Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain
Jan 10, 2017
Episode 57: Slanguage
Play • 24 min

Young people have always used language in new and different ways, and it has pretty much always driven older people crazy. But the linguist John McWhorter says all the "likes" and LOLs are part of a natural – and inevitable –evolution of language. This week on Hidden Brain, why language can't "sit still."

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