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Podcast: The Next Big Idea Daily

Episode: Finding for the Good in Bad English

Description: Today, linguist Valerie Fridland ("Like, Literally, Dude") takes us on a tour of the speech habits we love to hate and makes the surprising argument that "like's" and "literally's" make us better communicators.

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