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Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Mignon and Neal talk about language influencing memory, OFOM, university language programs, and more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:04.6 | Grammar Girl here, I'm Minion Fuggerty, |
| 0:06.7 | and today you'll hear me talk with Neil Whitman |
| 0:08.8 | about the most interesting language stories |
| 0:11.2 | that caught our eye in the news. |
| 0:13.2 | We talked about a new study that showed how people |
| 0:15.6 | who speak certain kinds of languages have a better memory. |
| 0:19.2 | How, having a word for both light blue and dark blue |
| 0:22.4 | can help people pick out colors faster, |
| 0:24.9 | and how language programs around the country are being cut. |
| 0:28.7 | Plus, at the end, we shared the origin stories |
| 0:30.8 | of Squiggly, ArtVark, and Fenster. |
| 0:33.3 | The characters you always hear about in the example sentences. |
| 0:36.4 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:38.1 | But first, I have a contest to tell you about. |
| 0:40.8 | Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast Network, |
| 0:44.1 | and to celebrate the network reaching the 300 million |
| 0:47.6 | download milestone, you can enter to win a one-on-one |
| 0:51.2 | web call with me. |
| 0:52.9 | It's along URL, so I'll just put it in the show notes, |
| 0:55.8 | but it's also the pinned tweet right now |
| 0:58.1 | at the Quick and Dirty Tips Twitter account, |
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