Not Quite a Boyfriend - 9 December 2013

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🗓️ 9 December 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If an older man and woman spend lots of time together, going to family gatherings and the like, but they’re NOT dating, what do you call their relationship? Best friends? Dear friends? Or . . . something else? And a marathon runner who’s crossed 31 states on foot talks about the odd phrases people use when giving directions. Plus, handegg, victuals and vittles, nernees and farsees, take a decision vs. make a decision, and the growing popularity of text tattoos. 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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0:27.8	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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