Hi, this is Mike Volo, senior producer at Slate and co-host of our language podcast, Lexicon Valley.

Bob, we're back December 9th, Monday with a run of all new episodes.

Starting with, I look at a language that leaves no room for misunderstanding.

It's called Logged Language or Log Land. For sure, it's an logical language or logland for sure.

It's an invented language, but of course, it's a little more complicated than that.

It's a lot more complicated than that.

Monday, December 9th, Lexicon Valley is back with episode number 33, the end of ambiguity.

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I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest, Eat My Shorts Edition.

It's Wednesday, December 4th, 2013.

On today's show, getting on the new boundary-pushing HBO show about the elderly, and then a war of words on an airplane, a surreptitious tweeting, and now possibly a hoax, what to make of the odd kerfuffle between Elan and Diane. And finally, the crossword puzzle turns 100 years old this year, and we'll talk about

its history and future with the irreplaceable Will Shorts. Joining me today is Slate's deputy editor,

Julia Turner. Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And the editorial director of Slate magazine, the

August John Swansberg. Hey, John. Hey, Steve. I'm feeling very august this morning. I know. You're looking

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