Here is Liz's example.
And this is what she had to say about it:
"I found this to be a very interesting article about vocal trendsetting. New York Times reporter, Douglas Quenqua, has a unique view on the idea of uptalk also know as valley girl speech. (If you are still unclear about what this is just listen to the pod cast.) The view on the article is that young women are vocal trendsetters and that men eventually join in once they realize that a particular trend is not going away.
In my opinion, the most obvious valley girl word is "like" and this article gave me a new look at that word completely. It stated that "In 2011, Dr. Liberman conducted an analysis of nearly 12,000 phone conversations recorded in 2003, and found that while young people tended to use “like” more often than older people, men used it more frequently than women." I was also surprised to hear that the word "like" has made its way to the Webster's Dictionary.
Overall, this was a well written article because the writer tells us what he knows, what he does not know, and what we think we know. I found it to be very interesting and think other people will too."
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