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Episode 11
As a language evolves, words, phrases and even whole tenses fall in and out of fashion. And then, every once in a while, a whole new way of expressin…
13 years, 10 months ago
When Being Done Replaced Doing
Episode 11
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of.
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13 years, 10 months ago
One Giant Leap for Humanity
Episode 10
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun.
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13 years, 10 months ago
One Giant Leap for Humanity
Episode 10
In the third and final installment of the Lexicon Valley series about language and gender, Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss the ongoing quest for …
13 years, 10 months ago
And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
Episode 9
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
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13 years, 11 months ago
And May He Be a Masculine Bridge
Episode 9
Does talking about an object as masculine or feminine somehow cause us to think of it that way? In the second part of a Lexicon Valley series about l…
13 years, 11 months ago
When Nouns Grew Genitals
Episode 8
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender.
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13 years, 11 months ago
When Nouns Grew Genitals
Episode 8
Languages all across the world have what’s called grammatical gender, which means simply that nouns get divided up into different categories or “clas…
13 years, 11 months ago
A Needle Pulling Thread
Episode 7
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so."
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13 years, 11 months ago
A Needle Pulling Thread
Episode 7
Have you noticed the seemingly stratospheric rise of the word “so” in recent years? People use it not only as a conjunction or an intensifying adverb…
13 years, 11 months ago