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Episode 57: Slanguage
Episode January 10, 2017 24 min 18s

Episode 57: Slanguage

From Hidden Brain • Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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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