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內容似乎是關於六人行10年來影響了美國和加拿大的口語XD

看板上有沒有翻譯達人可以幫忙

我的翻譯都怪怪的XD

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3911058/

The days may be so numbered for Chandler, Monica

and the rest of the gang on the final season of the hit U.S. sitcom,

“Friends”, but they may have left a lasting

imprint on contemporary English, with their

perpetual use of “so” -- as in “so cool.”

A study by researchers at the University of

Toronto suggests the language used in the

popular television show both reflected and

influenced speaking trends



In the report “So Cool; So Weird; So Innovative”,

to be presented this weekend at the American Dialect Society’s

annual meeting in Boston,

linguistics professor Sali Tagliamonte and co-author Chris Roberts focused

on intensifiers -- words used to emphasize a point --

and found that the language used by the TV characters

not only mirrored what goes on in the real world,

but actually pushes it forward.




“’So’ is the new favorite -- at least among mainstream culture,”

Tagliamonte told Reuters on Thursday,

adding that no study has been done on why the word is so popular.



Co-author Roberts spent a year going through transcripts

from each episode of the first eight seasons of “Friends”,

taking note of every single adjective for the study.



The study found Monica, Phoebe and Rachel used “so”

much more frequently than Chandler, Ross or Joey,

reflecting what researchers have established through previous studies:

women are generally the leaders in linguistic change.



The authors also found the show’s popularity peaked at the same time

the characters said “so” the most,

and as the use of the word declined, so did the show’s popularity.



Intensifiers provide researchers with an ideal way to examine language trends,

because they change and are cycled over time.



In the 13th century, it was “well”, which eventually gave way to “full”,

which then gave way to “right” in the 15th century.



“Some old person off the beaten track in a more rural community

might still say: ’Well, that’s right good’,” Tagliamonte said.


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so i'm just a puppet

but so were....


you!

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