The Magic of Gibberish

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2015

As our series on how we use language continues, Jessica Weiss, staff writer for The Miami New-Times who wrote "The Secret Linguistic Life of Girls: Why Girls Speak Gibberish" for Schwafire, looks at why girls are drawn to speaking to each other in gibberish.

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