Ep 151 - The Meaning of Meaning

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media

Comedy

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What do words mean and how do their meanings change over time and why is “might” one of the most complicated and interesting words out there? USC’s Deniz Rudin leads us through the best stoned dorm-room conversation ever, just without drugs and pizza and WITH a genuine linguistics professor! Plus... we let you know about our weirdest dining habits in “True Confessions: Food Edition!” GUEST Deniz Rudin Associate Professor of Linguistics University of Southern California https://denizrudin.github.io/ MUSICIAN Matt Butterfield from Rhode Island Oboe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.0	Tonight, semantics. What do we mean when we talk about semantics, which is the study of what
1:17.1	words mean? Or is it? Like, maybe there are some people for whom semantics is a kind of sweet
1:22.6	custard pie. Mmm, pie. USC professor of linguistics, Denise Rudin, joins us in our virtual dorm room to unpack the extreme heaviosity of language and meaning.
1:35.3	I hope he brings pie, man.
1:37.3	Plus, speaking of pie, we're going to be sharing some of our weird, food-related guilty pleasures.
1:42.3	I don't know what Captain Crinkles is, but I predict it loud.
1:46.2	That's part of our new feature, True Confessions, Food Edition.
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