Off the Turnip Truck (Rebroadcast) - 15 February 2021
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A Way with Words
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm Jack Greenlich. |
| 0:02.0 | I think you can listen to music from relaxing to celebrating, to getting yourself prepared. |
| 0:08.0 | I like all sorts, honestly. I like hip-hop, R&B, and then house music as well. |
| 0:13.0 | So yeah, there's no guilt with players around here. |
| 0:15.0 | Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones, enjoying his favourite music, |
| 0:20.0 | with more immersive sounds than ever before. |
| 0:23.0 | Wow, the music's just everything, isn't it? |
| 0:25.0 | Search Bose headphones. |
| 0:27.0 | Bose, sound is power. |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to a way with words, the show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett, and no texting is not destroying the English language. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you want proof of that, then you need to run right out and get the wonderful book |
| 0:45.0 | Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. |
| 0:48.0 | She's a linguist who analyzes the language of electronic communication, |
| 0:52.0 | so tweets and texts and the like. |
| 0:55.0 | And Grant, I think you'll agree that it's a smart introduction to language and linguistics in general. |
| 0:59.0 | Perfect. Yes. |
| 1:00.0 | And it's rich with insights about language in the digital age. |
| 1:04.0 | For example, she points out that it's not that writing has completely changed in the digital age, |
| 1:09.0 | but rather it's forked into formal and informal versions. |
| 1:14.0 | She writes, the Internet didn't create informal writing, but it did make it more common, |
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