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From Washington, D.C., this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo.

In our last episode, we talked about the word great, a once majestic part of the vocabulary

that has been weakened and diluted over time. And today, we consider a kind of

opposite situation, a word that has accumulated power in recent years, especially within Gen Alpha

and Zoomers. Hey, Mikey. Hey, Bob. How you doing? Splendid. Thank you and your own self.

I'm great. I'm great. I like the. How you doing? Splendid, thank you, and your own self. I'm great, great.

I like the way that you framed this episode.

You sound like you're longing for those halcyon days of yore when words like great really meant something

and when kids weren't coming up with new ways to insult us boomers and Gen Xers.

When the air was clean and there were no cat backpacks.

I'm not sure I remember a time when the air was clean.

I don't think the air has been clean since the late Pleistocene era.

Well, that's when I was in high school.

But the fact is that our language does not waste much time on nostalgia,

sort of like Londoners and their old buildings, right?

They're always tearing things down and putting up the shard,

which drives the building preservationists crazy.

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