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Is social media increasing the pace at which languages change? - 0 views

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    Language is a constantly changing, ever so malleable part of our world. While it's natural for languages to change over time, social media has seemed to accelerate the pace at which language is evolving. The quick-paced spreading of information and ideas can be seen for acronyms, catchy phrases, and beliefs.
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https://online.wharton.upenn.edu/blog/how-persuasion-skills-can-benefit-your-career/#:~... - 0 views

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    This article highlights the importance of how persuasion can benefit you in several aspects of your life, but specifically, the workplace. When using persuasive language, there are three main types of influential tactics: logical appeals, emotional appeals, and cooperative appeals. Successful persuasion come with the ability to navigate all three of these tactics, which comes with several benefits in the workplace such as pitching ideas, encouraging teamwork, enabling organization, and moving up the career ladder.
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The Surprising Benefits of Sarcasm - 0 views

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    This article discusses from several perspectives on how sarcasm directly affects our personal relationships. Several studies were included in this article, but it was concluded that interestingly, "those who engaged in a sarcastic conversation faired better on creativity tasks." This article also comments on the common negative connotation that comes with sarcasm, but counters this perspective through an analysis done on several studies, which ultimately sheds light on how sarcasm can "harness creative benefits" within our personal relationships.
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Linguistic Similarities Build Friendships and Echo Chambers - 0 views

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    This article discusses the psychology behind how each individual's linguistic style might influence those whom we build friendships with. Specifically, this article focuses in on how relational "echo chambers" are common in both online and in person conversations. From a study done to determine more about how linguistics relate to relationships, it was found that "In addition to linguistic similarity driving tie formation, friendship ties will also induce increases in linguistic similarity."
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