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this is our linguistics project…lol

Sociolinguistics

Max Orroth, Arielle Gordon, Jillian Litke We’ve all heard of the acronym lol, short for “laugh out loud”, and have used it in more than one context. Lol differs from other internet-born acronyms, like ROTFL, as it has become widespread across social platforms all over the world and has maintained a role in American English […]

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“I scared he eat, then the stomach explode!”: Missing Tense and the Standardization of Singlish

Sociolinguistics

Hannah Chu, Trevor Htoon, Youchuan (Aaron) Hu, Ann Mayor, Grace Yao Can we detect language change right as it’s happening? As a result of nearly a century of colonial handoffs, the Southeast Asian Island of Singapore developed its own, unique variety of English: Singapore Colloquial English, more commonly known as Singlish. There is reason to

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