Valerie Fridland (on linguistics)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Valerie Fridland (Like, Literally, Dude) is a professor, sociolinguist, and author. Valerie joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why people dislike the word "moist" so much, how accents are a part of social identity, and where modern English developed from. Valerie and Dax talk about what language prescriptivism is, the issues people have with the use of "like," and how discourse markers in language are used. Valerie explains what linguistic tricks people use to fit in with popular culture, what it means when words go through semantic bleaching, and what the original meaning of the word "dude" was. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan rather I'm joined by the Duchess Hope Duluth
0:07.0	Hi there.
0:08.0	Hi we are still on vacation on vacation
0:12.0	We're on vacation. We're on vacation and we have a very fun guest today.
0:18.7	Yeah this one really blew our mind.
0:20.5	Valerie Friedland. She is a linguist professor and an expert on the
0:25.5	relationships between language and society. This was so fun. We got to just
0:29.7	ask her about every word we use or hate or love and she knew everything.
0:33.6	Absolutely and she helped de-stigmatize some words that were overusing and she gave reasons
0:40.4	why.
0:41.4	She defends some words you might hate. Yeah. And in fact the name of her new book is called, like literally dude, arguing for the good in bad English.
0:50.0	Oh, this one's tasty. So please enjoy Valerie Friedland.
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1:10.8	He's an up'm sure it's bad.
1:16.0	Valerie welcome.
1:23.0	Valerie welcome.
1:24.0	Thank you.
1:25.0	I'm so excited to have you because it's very relevant to our job.
1:29.0	Your work.
1:30.0	Talking.
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