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Slate Debates

Has English Gotten Less Complex?

Slate Debates

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Society & Culture, News

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. English has shed many of its nuances over the centuries. Take pronouns, for example. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

0:08.2

I'm John McWater and it's the beginning of the school year and I happen to be teaching

0:13.2

my history of English class which has me in a kind of old Englishy mood and then some

0:18.8

other things have me thinking about languages and complicatedness and whether some languages

0:24.9

or more complicated than others and so I thought I'd fuse those two things for this

0:29.8

episode and give us an excuse to I mean and give us the opportunity to look at old English

0:36.8

a bit just because it's fun but then to pull out the camera and learn some things about

0:43.4

what it means for a language to be complicated and why some languages are more complicated

0:48.2

than others.

0:49.2

Of course some people would argue that no language is less complicated than another one

0:52.4

frankly they're wrong and we will see why.

1:22.4

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1:36.4

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1:40.2

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1:44.8

podcast.

1:45.8

Thank you.

1:53.4

I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra.

1:55.9

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2:00.0

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2:04.4

in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues.

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