Is Sabrina Carpenter saving the English language? | Emma Humphries | TEDxQueensUniversityBelfast

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What can a pop song teach us about grammar? On her latest album, Sabrina Carpenter calls out a potential lover for their ‘bad’ grammar - a witty jab that speaks to a larger story: society’s long-standing fixation on what counts as ‘correct’ English. This ideology, known as linguistic prescriptivism, divides language in