Language change in progress – us and our Red Sox buddies

Language Log 2013-05-12

Summary:

Just now I was washing breakfast dishes and mentally composing a Facebook post, which started out “Last night was not a good night for Orioles – Red Sox – anti-Yankees fans! The three way tie for first place got broken in the worst direction! Us and our Red Sox buddies …” and I forget how [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4617

From feeds:

Gudgeon and gist » Language Log

Tags:

dialects language change sociolinguistics style and register changing times language and sports pronouns

Authors:

Barbara Partee

Date tagged:

05/12/2013, 05:30

Date published:

05/12/2013, 05:25