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

Ding Ding Man - 29 October 2018

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

A Way with Words

Education, Language Learning, Society & Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 1803, a shy British pharmacist wrote a pamphlet that made him a reluctant celebrity. The reason? He proposed a revolutionary new system for classifying clouds — with Latin names we still use today, like cumulus, cirrus, and stratus. Also: when reading aloud to children, what’s the best way to present a dialect that’s different from your own? And: If you’re only guessing when you toss it in the recyclng bin, then you’re engaging in wishcycling — and that does more harm than good. Plus, T Jones, diegetic vs. non-diegetic, affixes, solastalgia, since Sookie was a calf, don’t that just frost ya, a brainteaser, and more. 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/. Email [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.8

You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

0:33.4

I'm Grant Barrett.

0:34.4

And I'm Martha Barnett.

0:36.0

Imagine that all the punctuation marks gave a party.

0:40.0

What would that look like?

0:42.0

Rachel Herbert asked that.

0:43.6

On Twitter, she's an editor in Seattle, Washington.

0:47.2

She wrote, sometimes I imagine punctuation marks

0:49.9

as people at a party.

0:51.3

Comma, uh-huh, uh-huh, okay, then what happened?

0:55.6

And the colon makes intense eye contact and says, now look.

1:00.2

And a semicolon, hand you their drink and plate

1:02.6

so that they can gesture more freely.

1:05.0

And the period abruptly says, we're done.

1:07.4

Let's go.

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