Hello friends, welcome back to the show.

My guest today is Valerie Friedland.

She's a sociolinguist, professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, a researcher,

and an author.

On average, we say around 5,000 words every day.

But how often have you assessed why you communicate the way you do, or where the words that you're

using came from?

This is where the fascinating field of sociolinguistics comes in, exploring the history of our speech patterns

and words origins to help us develop new and better ways to communicate.

Expect to learn why languages evolved to be so complex, how to stop saying like so much,

how social media has impacted the way we speak, why you keep using um and ur all the time,

why black Twitter is at the forefront of all cool new lingo, the unexpected origin of

the word hello, why I apparently have a hard time pronouncing my ars, and much more.

Very cool from Valerie, I know that communication and improving your communication is something

that an awful lot of people care about, and Valerie's got some really interesting insights,

it should help to make you feel far less nervous about your vocal tics, and remember that

the vibe and the energy of how you deliver things is a lot more important than the specific

precision with which you say them.

Say the words properly, get the delivery right, and the stuff in between makes a lot less

of a difference, it seems.

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