Hi, this is Mike Volo, senior producer at Slate and co-host of our language podcast, Lexicon Valley.

Bob, we're back December 9th, Monday with a run of all new episodes.

Starting with, I look at a language that leaves no room for misunderstanding.

It's called Logged Language or Log Land. For sure, it's called logical language or logland.

For sure, it's an invented language, but of course, it's a little more complicated than that.

It's a lot more complicated than that.

Monday, December 9th, Lexicon Valley is back with episode number 33, the end of ambiguity.

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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 5th, 2013, the Motor City Massacre Edition.

I'm David Flaudez, Ender Slate.

Just a week out from our two-night two-show San Francisco tour.

We are very excited for it.

We're going to have special guests.

We're going to have cocktails. There will be a conundrum show. In fact, anyone who is coming to our December 10th show come with a conundrum. We're going to have some live conundrum solving on that show on

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