Hi, I'm Bob Garfield.

Join me and co-host and producer Mike Volo for Lexicon Valley,

a new series of podcasts about language here on Slate.

First up, we've all heard it's wrong to end a sentence with a preposition, but why?

Yeah, where did that rule come from?

And didn't I just violate it?

Mike, I guess you're supposed to say something like, from where did that rule come from? And didn't I just violate it? Mike, I guess you're supposed to say something like,

from where did that rule come?

But that sounds stupid.

I doubt how one playwright's superiority complex spawned the dubious preposition rule.

Lexicon Valley Mondays on the Slate Daily podcast.

The following podcast contains explicit language.

I'm Stephen Metcalfe, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Luck, be a lady edition.

It's Wednesday, February 1st, 2011.

On today's program, Luck, the new HBO television series from Michael Mann and David Milch, I almost forgot,

and the Iranian film A Separation.

And finally, Slate's own Jody Rosen joins us to talk about Lana Del Rey and the Bruhaha surrounding the pop shantos.

Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.

Hey, Julia.

Hi, Steve.

And Slate's film critic, Dana, Stevens.

Hey, Dana.

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