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A UNSW linguist traces TikTok's "it's giving" to two deleted words
Cathy Xu's study of "it's giving" documents an ordinary verb taking complements it never used to take, and users who police the new pattern without a rulebook. She said in an interview that new usage now spreads in a couple of years.
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