Curse of Knowledge

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It’s all about terms of endearment: If your loved one is far away for a long time, you’re probably tired of just saying “I miss you” over and over. For variety’s sake, there are some creative alternatives to that phrase. Also, what do you call the kind of friend you can go without seeing for years, then pick right back up with, as though no time has passed? Martha calls them her “Anyway friends,” because they always resume the conversation with the transitional term “Anyway…” And if a characteristic is “ingrained and long-established,” do you say it is deep-seated or deep-SEEDED? Plus, Cajun slang, burning platforms, cutting circumbendibus, under the weather, smell a mouse, yard sales on ski slopes, how to pronounce mayonnaise and won, and the curse of knowledge. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: ⁠https://waywordradio.org⁠. Be a part of the show: call or text ⁠1 (877) 929-9673⁠ toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text ⁠+1 619 800 4443⁠. Send voice notes or messages via ⁠WhatsApp 16198004443.⁠ Email ⁠words@waywordradio.org⁠. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1	Support for away with words comes from common ground, the new word game for nimble and knowledgeable minds.
0:26.8	More information about how language lovers can find common ground at common groundthegame.com.
0:33.6	You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:36.7	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:37.4	And I'm Grant Barrett.
0:38.7	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:49.1	Several years ago, a researcher at Stanford conducted a study in which she asked people to tap out rhythms to songs that they had in their heads,
0:52.6	and other people were supposed to guess what the songs were. Like, for example, I have a song in my head.
0:55.5	Try to guess what it is.
1:02.1	It sounds like a clap that they do at baseball games?
1:05.9	No, no.
1:07.1	What is it?
1:07.7	No, that's somewhere over the rainbow.
1:09.4	Oh, really?
1:11.6	Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it is. What are I missing here? What's somewhere over the rainbow. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.
1:12.6	Yeah, it is.
1:13.6	What's going on here is what we call the curse of knowledge in that I have the whole thing in my head, but you're not hearing it at all.
1:21.6	And in fact, that's what happened in this study.
1:24.6	People guess only 3% of 120 or so songs that people were tapping out. And I was thinking
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