Lie Like A Rug (Rebroadcast) - 4 March 2019

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The words we choose can change attitudes — and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He says that using words like “leader” and “follower” actually works better than using gendered terms. But not everyone agrees. Plus, a pithy observation about how stray comments can seem meaningless at the time, but can lodge in other people like seeds and start growing. Plus, slang you might hear in Albuquerque, sufficiently suffonsified, make ends meet, cut a chogi, and minders, finders, and grinders. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to a way with words to show about language and how we use it.
0:03.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.2	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:06.0	On our Facebook group, someone named Tola Big Boggi wrote, I just wrote a chat to someone that struck
0:11.8	me as funny.
0:13.3	It's really coming down up here.
0:15.6	Are there any other sentences like this where you use opposite words right next to each other,
0:19.8	like down up up?
0:20.6	It's really coming down up here. Coming down up here. So where are they? They're like in the
0:24.9	northern part of the country and the rain is coming down. It's really coming down up here. So those
0:29.6	two propositions next to each other are kind of weird. A little preposition pile up.
0:34.0	Yes, and then we heard from a lot of other people who were chiming in.
0:37.0	Somebody said, I can't stand sitting down for so long.
0:40.0	Can't stand sitting down.
0:42.0	Or somebody else wrote,
0:43.0	Turn left right here, and then somebody else wrote,
0:45.7	don't make the wrong right turn,
0:47.4	or you'll be left right back where you started.
0:51.0	It's like my shoes are out in the garage out in. Some of them make sense right?
0:55.1	Right.
0:56.1	Or come in out of the rain.
0:57.1	Come in out of the rain. Right.
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