From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWater and we're going to do a weird show this time.

This is going to be the kind of episode that I get the feeling a lot of people wish I

would do more often and I get it.

But you know, I have to be me and me is what one writer a few years ago nailed as a magpie.

I think I am a magpie.

I want to grab stuff and show it to you.

And where I'm usually doing this grabbing around isn't the latest headlines at heart.

What I am is a nerdy armchair, academic boring kind of person.

But you know, these are special times for reasons I do not need to explain.

And you know, in my other life, I do read the news.

And for this episode, partly upon the request of others and partly because I really feel

it as a duty.

I think I'll share with you some of my feelings about, you know, real things.

So this time, no, Estonian, et cetera.

Estonian is quite real.

But we need to do things that are less fun.

I want to share with you my opinions about some language related issues that I think

a lot of us are thinking about these days.

So let's start with DeFund.

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