By Their Words You Shall Know Them

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2012

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How we know L. Frank Baum didn't write the 15th Oz book — the surprising way mathematicians can determine authorship. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.3	From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
0:25.7	I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today, episode number 14, titled By Their Words, You Shall Know Them,
0:33.4	wherein we build ourselves a working hypothesis with lexical clue.
0:45.0	Hey, Mike.
0:46.6	Hey, buddy.
0:47.3	How you doing?
0:48.8	Fantastic.
0:49.8	And yourself?
0:50.8	Good.
0:51.1	You know, I often call my dog buddy, so you should consider that the very
0:56.5	highest compliment. Or the opposite, but thank you. Trust me, it's a compliment. All right,
1:04.3	thank you. And so taken. What do we got today? Well, speaking of compliments, I want to read a couple of
1:10.6	iTunes comments and thank our
1:12.7	listeners for the many generous reviews, especially to those of you who have played along with
1:18.8	our silly game of incorporating a rhetorical device into your comments. For example, Jared Martinson
1:24.8	wrote recently, Lexicon Valley is a joy to my ears and to my mind a treat.
1:31.2	So he took the structure of the first part, A Joy to My Ears, and Inverted it, and To My Mind, a Treat.
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