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A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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New research shows that you may be less influenced by superstitious behavior like walking under ladders or the magic of four-leaf clovers if you’re reading about it in another language. • Sometimes not cursing will catch someone’s ear even more than a real curse word. • In what sport do you enjoy a glass-off and speck out before getting flushed? Martha brings back a firsthand report from the language of paragliding. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	You're listening to A Way With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.5	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.4	And I'm Martha Barnett, and I've been delving into some wonderful slang in a field that's new to me,
0:40.3	and I wonder if you can guess what I'm talking about.
0:43.0	Guess the Field?
0:44.0	Or the meanings of the slang or everything.
0:46.0	Guess the field first of all.
0:48.0	Okay. Here are three examples of slang from this field.
0:51.0	Glass off, Speck, and get flushed.
0:56.7	Is it water testing?
0:58.4	Water testing?
0:59.2	Is it, um, telescopes? Is it astronomy.
1:05.0	Astronomy is in the general direction there.
1:09.0	People who make eyeglasses, optometrists?
1:11.0	Uh, no, no. I heard spec and I heard glass that's what I'm thinking of those things
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