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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Cool Your Soup (Rebroadcast) - 10 April 2023

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

According to Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, it’s important to master the basics of writing, but there comes a time when you have to strike out on your own and teach yourself. Also: Spanish idioms involving food, a conversation about the difference between compassion and sympathy, recursive acronyms, bear-caught, leaverites, jonesing, mon oeil, Jane Austen’s pins, high-water pants, and save your breath to cool your soup. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, a Tony Box appeared.

0:02.7

A musical story box, a treat for my ears.

0:06.0

It was screen-free and joyful and taught them new words.

0:09.2

There's hundreds of stories lots to be heard.

0:12.0

A hair-bopping, it's so rough for me!

0:15.6

I picked one at bedtime if it was leaked super fast.

0:18.6

Then I relaxed on the sofa.

0:20.5

At last!

0:21.6

For 10% off your Tony Box, use code store 10 at tonys.com.

0:26.4

T-O-N-I-E-S dot com.

0:28.9

Happy listening.

0:30.3

You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it.

0:33.6

I'm Grant Barrett.

0:34.6

And I'm Martha Barnett.

0:36.2

As I have for the last couple of years, I taught a workshop at the San Miguel Riders Conference

0:41.8

and Literary Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

0:45.6

And I was reminded of a couple of food-related idioms in Spanish that I think you'll appreciate.

0:52.8

In English, if you're really scared about something, you might describe yourself as shaking

0:58.1

like a leaf, right?

0:59.8

But in Spanish, the phrase is temblar como un flan.

1:04.3

To shake like a flan, like a dessert?

1:06.7

Yeah, to tremble like a flan, which you can just picture it, right?

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