Not Quite a Boyfriend - 9 December 2013
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🗓️ 9 December 2013
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:27.8 | You're listening to Away with Words, a show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. I was in the grocery line the other day and up ahead of me was a woman who had a sizable |
| 0:41.1 | tattoo on her shoulder and so I was leaning forward in trying to get a better look at it because it wasn't an image. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm looking around and I'm seeing more and more people wearing tattoos that have text rather than images and it's got me |
| 0:55.2 | wondering why would you choose text rather than an image and if you were gonna |
| 1:01.0 | choose text I mean I'm not gonna get a tattoo, but if I were to do that, what would I say? |
| 1:06.0 | Right, it's a good question. Some people choose biblical verses. Some people choose bits of songs that they love. |
| 1:12.0 | Some people choose misspellings. |
| 1:14.6 | That's my favorite one. |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, that's a non-stop source of amusement is the people who |
| 1:20.8 | write things like better than you, T-H-E-N. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm like, okay, that's great to that too, I guess. |
| 1:29.9 | Right, right, or something from a foreign language |
| 1:32.1 | that is a bad translation. |
| 1:33.2 | Do you think you would regret text less over the, over time than you would an image? |
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