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Lexicon Valley

Going Deep

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The simple verb 'to go' quickly gets complex in just about any language and English is no exception. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 267: "Going Deep." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.

0:21.9

Like coffee date etiquette?

0:23.4

Best time to eat cereal.

0:24.9

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

0:29.5

I don't know what around is.

0:30.9

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

0:32.7

Yeah.

0:33.1

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

0:38.7

smallest stuff.

0:39.6

Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers.

0:46.6

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

0:51.8

matter.

0:52.3

So listen to Small Stupid Stuff on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.8

And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

1:00.9

Stop.

1:04.6

From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

1:13.3

I'm John McWhorter, and I want to continue in the vein of the last show.

1:17.9

I don't usually do it this way, but it seems almost inevitable that if there was a whole show about the verb come, then certainly we have to say something about, well, three guesses, the verb go,

1:29.8

because actually it's just as interesting as come. Coming and going are a big part of any

1:35.4

language. They express themselves in many ways. And so let's talk about go. So for example, talk about

1:42.3

come and its past form came and how that's not what it's supposed to be

1:46.5

and then the business with my son is come after a long journey away. Well, you know, with go,

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