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Re:The Totes Amazesh Way Millennials Are Changing the Englis... by pnathan on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:24PM (#10954112)
Dude, that's so hip. All those people grooving to the new vibe.

I think it's worth noting that different socioeconomic classes have developed their own vernacular, and thus, it's slightly foggy of the Post to not comment on the population surveyed.

For the more academically minded among us who have time in their day to watch, here's the academic talk given on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJoiGQ7yj0 - I don't have time to watch it now, but totes will later.

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Re:The Totes Amazesh Way Millennials Are Changing the Englis... by DanielStraight on Friday January 22, 2016 @01:50PM (#10954724)
See also: http://opencuny.org/laurenspradlin/the-morphophonology-of-to...

The presentation is really good: http://opencuny.org/laurenspradlin/files/2016/01/Totes-LSA-S...

This is really interesting too, from the same author: http://opencuny.org/laurenspradlin/class/ It's basically a phonology version of the card game Set.

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