115: Mailbag, Right? (with Caitlin Green)

We’re answering questions from our Mailbag, and Dr Caitlin Green is jumping in to help.

When people say Right? or Don’t you think?, are they engaging in a nefarious tactic to get you to agree?
How do you deal with the prescriptivists in your family?
Why did English drop their singular thou, when Swedish dropped their plural ni?

And Ben tells us how he tried to build solidarity with students using terms of address. Why didn’t it go well?

Timestamps

Cold open: 0:00
Intros: 0:41
Questions: 14:30
Related or Not: 35:16
More questions: 55:19
The Reads: 1:09:36
Outtake: 1:17:43

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