Monkey's Wedding - 28 October 2013

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🗓️ 28 October 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s the art of constructive feedback: If you’re a teacher with a mountain of papers to grade, you may find yourself puzzling over which kinds of notes in the margins work best. Martha and Grant discuss strategies for effective paper-grading. And when your inbox is full of spam and LinkedIn requests, even a bad emailed joke starts to look good. Martha shares one, along with some riddles from Portuguese and Spanish. And that slithering reptile in the garage — is it a garden snake, a gardener snake, or a garter snake? Plus, creek vs. crick, the origins of shank, rhubarb, and ping me, and “the devil is beating his wife.” 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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0:06.7	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with
0:11.3	creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
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0:21.1	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:25.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:31.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:32.0	And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant
0:33.4	today we're going to start with a math question. Can I pass that on to someone else?
0:36.4	No, no, no, no. No, humor me here, okay? Math question. I have seven
0:41.0	oranges in one hand and six oranges in another hand. What do I have?
0:44.0	13 oranges. I have really big hands.
0:47.0	Or really little oranges.
0:51.0	Your hands are kind of manly.
0:54.0	Do you shade the backs?
0:55.0	Thank you.
0:56.0	Vanessa Redgrave and I, we have these big paws.
0:59.0	That's a really terrible joke, Martha.
1:01.0	I thought you would like it.
1:03.0	No, no.
1:04.0	It's a good terrible, right?
1:06.0	That's right.
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