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A Meditation on Scrabble

Episode 6

Does Scrabble in fact celebrate language? Or does it merely reduce English to a set of mathematical symbols and probability calculations? Mike Vuolo …

14 years ago

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A Meditation on Scrabble

Episode 6

Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble.

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14 years ago

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Untuning the String

Episode 5

In the early 1960s, amid a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, a burgeoning civil rights movement here at home, and a dawning countercultural re…

14 years, 1 month ago

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Untuning the String

Episode 5

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't.

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14 years, 1 month ago

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Jumpin' Salty in The O

Episode 4

Kathryn Stockett’s dialogue-heavy The Help, a novel that was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie, caused a stir over whether a white writer should de…

14 years, 1 month ago

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Jumpin' Salty in The O

Episode 4

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics.

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14 years, 1 month ago

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Consider the Lamppost

Episode 3

Do you flinch when someone says “between you and I”? Textbook English tells us that it’s categorically ungrammatical, and yet it’s arguably more comm…

14 years, 1 month ago

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Consider the Lamppost

Episode 3

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I."

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14 years, 1 month ago

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A Bundle of Faggots

Episode 2

On the history and future of the other F-word.

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14 years, 1 month ago

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A Bundle of Faggots

Episode 2

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot."

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14 years, 1 month ago

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