Hair on Your Tongue - 11 February 2019

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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If you speak both German and Spanish, you may find yourself reaching for a German word instead of a Spanish one, and vice versa. This puzzling experience is so common among polyglots that linguists have a name for it. • The best writers create luscious, long sentences using the same principles that make for a musician’s melodious phrasing or a tightrope walker’s measured steps. • Want to say something is wild and crazy in Norwegian? You can use a slang phrase that translates as “That’s totally Texas!” • Plus happenstance, underwear euphemisms, pooh-pooh, scrappy, fret, gedunk, tartar sauce, antejentacular, the many ways to pronounce the word experiment, a fun word quiz, and lots more. 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/. Email [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett
0:35.9	Norwegian. Let's talk about Norwegian. We never talk about Norwegian. We don't do we? But let's okay Okay. We got an email from
0:43.0	Zach Bressler who's originally from Omaha, Nebraska, but he's
0:47.3	studying in Norway as a doctoral student and he's picked up a lot of
0:52.3	great Norwegian slang that I know you're going to dig.
0:55.0	Yes, please.
0:56.0	One of the expressions translates as to be in the middle of the butter's eye.
1:01.0	Be in the middle of the butter's eyes, butter as in the thing you spread on toast.
1:05.0	Mm-hmm. And it means to be in exactly the best possible spot.
1:09.0	And the idea there is that there's a Norwegian rice pudding called a Riesglut or something like that.
1:16.0	And traditionally you put a spoon of butter in the middle and it slightly melts before serving.
1:20.5	It sounds just perfect.
1:22.0	But if you're in the middle of the butter's eye you're in exactly the right place.
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