stuck with the title of a book in CR

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<p>In 2003, John McWhorter wrote Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, in which he argued that … the name of the book confuses me, what do" doing our own thing" and " why we should, care, like" mean?</p>

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<p>The name of the book is a joke on the book’s contents. Since the book is about “the degradation of language,” the author included a superfluous “like” in the expression, mimicking a way in which contemporary speakers “degrade” language. “Doing Our Own Thing” is probably about being individual by violating standard language rules.</p>

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<p>Thank you for your help:)</p>