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A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland

A Defense of "Bad" English: Interview with Valerie Fridland

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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.

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