#2442: Does Anybody Screen These Calls?

The Best of Car Talk

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0	On the Ted Radio Hour, linguist Anne Curzan says she gets a lot of complaints about people using the pronoun they to refer to one person.
0:10.0	I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me but it can't be singular and I will say but it is.
0:17.0	The history behind words causing a lot of debate that's on the Ted Radio Hour from NPR. Hello and welcome to Cara Talk from National Public Radio with us
0:43.2	Click and Clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the
0:46.3	well duh division here in Card Talk Plaza. This just in
0:51.0	Dateline, Washington.
0:53.0	Anitsa, that is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study,
0:57.0	scheduled for release this summer, reportedly, will conclude that heavy cars are safer than light cars.
1:04.0	Yeah, I mean now, what?
1:06.0	Well, I said, well, duh.
1:08.0	How many millions of dollars did they spend to do this study? I mean even, I mean this was reported in
1:15.6	automotive news the May 6th issue of automotive news, this is the Bible of the
1:19.7	automotive industry and even they said they started off the article with this
1:24.5	Washington suspicions and common sense confirmed the chances of dying in a car
1:31.9	crash increased substantially as the vehicle weight decreases and
1:36.8	evidently the study has not yet been published by NHTSA, but of course automotive news
1:42.2	has got some sneak information that they paid for somehow.
1:46.0	And it basically says that for every 100 pound reduction,
1:51.0	I shouldn't have said that and I'm sorry.
1:55.0	I might as well do it right now, right?
1:58.0	I'll apologize right now.
2:00.0	Well, how else did they get it?
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