Daily Archives: July 14, 2022

Judges and lawyers are making use of linguistic corpora in court cases, but it’s not clear that they know how to use them correctly: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23153218/legal-corpus-linguistics-mask-mandate-judges

Here is a thoughtful article about “like”: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/15/why-do-people-like-say-like-so-much-in-praise-of-an-underappreciated-word?CMP=share_btn_link  

This article makes the — pretty obvious — point that hesitation markers and “fillers” serve an important conversational purpose: Filler Words and Floor Holders: The Sounds Our Thoughts Make