Green Eyed Monster (Rebroadcast) - 18 April 2016

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

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We often hear that English is going to hell in a handbasket. Actually, though, linguistic handwringing about sinking standards and sloppy speech has been going on for centuries – at least as far back as the 1300’s! And: language also changes to fit the needs the workplace. Take, for example, the slang of flight attendants. Listen on your next trip, and you might overhear them talking about landing lips, flying dirty, or crew juice. Plus, a discreet phrase from Arabic for advising someone that he has food in his beard. All this, plus a word game based on Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” “dead as a doornail,” the green-eyed monster, and learning that fat meat is greasy. 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/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Everything is fuel for your creativity with the Lenovo Yoga laptop series.
0:04.3	From the people you meet to the creators you follow, it all comes together with
0:08.0	Lenovo Yoga.
0:09.0	Plus, you get a 50 pound travel voucher and a shot at winning an awesome trip to New York and a Motorola
0:14.6	razor 40 Ultra. Check out the Lenovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives at
0:19.7	Lenovo.com slash Yoga. Limited time only terms and conditions apply.
0:23.8	Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform.
0:27.8	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.2	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.6	I have a new friend who is a flight attendant for many, many years and she's been regaling
0:41.2	me with the jargon that they use.
0:43.0	Oh boy.
0:44.0	And Grant, you're going to love it.
0:45.0	It's just delicious.
0:46.0	I've got a long, long list here, but let me just share a couple of them with you.
0:49.0	Do you know what a two for one special is?
0:52.0	No? This is when the plane hits the runway once and goes back up a little bit and then hits the runway again.
0:58.4	On the way down? Yes, it's something the pilot is supposed to do if the runway is slick because it breaks the water
1:04.6	plane and makes it land more smoothly actually.
1:07.8	So a two for one special, bump, bump.
1:10.4	These are things that we've experienced that we've seen, but we't know that there were terms because we don't fly all the time but they do so they need the short hands
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from A Way with Words, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of A Way with Words and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.