Eat The Grindstone (Rebroadcast) - 2 May 2016

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🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The books we love as children may influence our careers more than we realize. As a child, Martha was fascinated with stories of cracking codes, and Grant loved books with glossaries–not that far from the kind of work they do today. A caller from Michigan credits her long career in medicine to a children’s book called Nurse Nancy. Also, ever traveled to England and ended up incorporating British phrases into your own vocabulary? You’re feeling “the chameleon effect.” And you know when you return to your car and take a moment before leaving to check your phone messages? What do you call that? Plus, a Dial-a-Joke word quiz, baffie slippers, bacon collar, the power of rhyme, and Shakespeare’s First Folio goes on tour. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.4	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett, and it's time for another round of linguistic, would you rather? Oh, boy. You know, the party game where you answer questions like, would you rather have the ability to be invisible or time travel and why? Oh, wow. You're asking me that, or is that just an example? Well, that's an example, but now that I mention it, I'm curious. Time travel.
0:22.0	Time travel.
0:23.0	Really?
0:24.0	Unquestionably, yes. Is that you're asking me that? Well, that's an example. But now that I mention it, I'm curious. Time travel.
0:21.5	Time travel.
0:21.9	Really?
0:22.8	Unquestionably, yes.
0:23.5	Okay.
0:23.9	Why?
0:24.6	Because I want to see things that are unseeable. I want to go places that are ungoable. Okay. You don't want to be unseeable. You want to go to the places. I want to learn. and being invisible is more a tool for mischief for me.
0:35.8	Yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
0:37.6	Although the invisible was tempting for a little bit,
0:39.9	but the more I thought. Yeah, I agree with you.
0:37.6	Although the invisible was tempting for a little bit,
0:39.9	but the more I thought about it,
0:41.4	I mean,
0:41.6	wouldn't it be great to hang out with Cleopatra?
0:44.0	And technically,
0:44.7	you could use time travel
0:45.9	as a form of being invisible.
0:47.8	Technically, I suppose you could.
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