alt Hacker NewsDon’t people pick up language, vocabulary and dialect from those around them? Perhaps it’s subconscious but humans are imitating other humans all the time?
Don’t people pick up language, vocabulary and dialect from those around them? Perhaps it’s subconscious but humans are imitating other humans all the time?
It's a mix.
Yes, you imitate how others speak, but when you are trying to solve a problem, you don't try to predict how others would complete a text.
(Well, unless you follow 'what token would Jesus pick?' / 'what would Jesus do'.)