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Auna Nygaard Explores the Social Roles of Latter-day Saint Missionary Slang
What do monkeys, shotguns, robots, and the color green have in common? Well, besides being nouns, they're all slang terms used by full-time missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Undergraduate student Auna Nygaard studied missionary slang and presented her research at the American Dialect Society conference last month. Check out the full article at https://ling.byu.edu/auna-nygaard-explores-the-social-roles-of-latter-day-saint-missionary-slang
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Auna Nygaard Explores the Social Roles of Latter-day Saint Missionary Slang
What do monkeys, shotguns, robots, and the color green have in common? Well, besides being nouns, they're all slang terms used by full-time missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Undergraduate student Auna Nygaard studied missionary slang and presented her research at the American Dialect Society conference last month. Check out the full article at https://ling.byu.edu/auna-nygaard-explores-the-social-roles-of-latter-day-saint-missionary-slang
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