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The linguistic divide - The Globe and Mail
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This was in the Globe and Mail this morning MARINA JIMÉNEZ From Friday's Globe and Mail April 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM EDT A Botox treatment can mask your age - but the way you speak gives you away. A University of Toronto sociolinguistics professor has discovered that those under 40 are much more likely to use the word "like" when narrating a story, than those over 40. As in "I'm like, 'What are you talking about?' " instead of "I ...