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Slate Debates

One Tongue to Rule Them All

Slate Debates

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, News

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

John McWhorter on the tantalizing prospect of a universal language. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcastsplus. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever thought, ugh, this water is too wet?

0:04.4

Or this beach is too sandy.

0:06.6

My name's Christine.

0:07.7

And my name is Sandy.

0:09.2

And where the host of Beach to Sandy water to wet.

0:11.4

A podcast where we do dramatic readings of the most wild and off the wall reviews on

0:15.3

the internet.

0:16.3

We find the funniest, real reviews about everything from Vegas weddings, matchmaking services

0:21.4

and trader joes, to caves, toddler beds, and spirit Halloween.

0:25.6

You won't believe the things that people think absolutely must be set on the internet.

0:29.2

How else would everyone know that some caves don't have wifi?

0:32.0

We hear about the good, the bad, and that one time spirit Halloween sent someone a dildo

0:36.0

instead of a Halloween costume.

0:37.8

And believe it or not, we got to the bottom of it.

0:40.5

Join us every Wednesday wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:43.4

Beach to Sandy water to wet is brought to you by the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:47.2

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:55.7

From New York City, this is Luxicon Valley, a podcast about language.

0:59.7

I'm John McWater and this is something that you probably did not know.

1:05.6

It's one of those things.

1:07.3

Did you know that Bulgarians nod to say no and they shake their head to say yes?

1:14.5

Isn't that interesting?

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