Hell's Bells - 20 October 2014

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🗓️ 20 October 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The language of restaurant menus. Need a dictionary to get through a dinner menu? Research shows the longer the description of a particular dish, the more expensive it will be. Plus: What’s the best way to use a thesaurus? DON’T — unless, that is, you already know the definition of the word in question. From careless plagiarists to a former president, a look at the embarrassing results when people try using a big word they don’t quite understand. Plus, the story behind “Hell’s Bells,” and what your clothes look like if they’re “swarpy.” Also, wake vs. awaken, this weekend vs. next weekend, rat-finking, balderdash, Hell’s bells!, and widdershins. 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 [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.5	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:19.5	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:20.5	There is a wonderful new word making the rounds in linguistic circles these days
0:24.9	and it is rogeying.
0:26.8	rogeying like the thesaurus fellow.
0:29.1	Exactly with a capital R R R-O-G E- it's defined as disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms one word at a time
0:39.6	with no attempt to understand either the source or the target text.
0:44.0	Oh yes, yes.
0:45.0	It's wonderful.
0:46.0	It's the creation of a guy named Chris Sadler, who's a lecturer at Middlesex University,
0:51.0	and he was left scratching his head over some student papers.
0:55.2	He teaches business information systems.
0:57.5	He came across, for example, a line in a student paper that went like this. Common mature musicians and recent liturgy
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