Polyglot Problems - 1 July 2013

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 24 June 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s the business of business jargon. Say you’re in line at the drugstore. Does it bother you if the cashier says, “Next guest”? In department stores and coffeeshops, does the term “guest” suggest real hospitality—or just an annoying edict from corporate headquarters? And speaking of buzzwords, has your boss adopted the trendy term “cadence”? Also: words made up to define emotions, like “intaxication.” That’s the euphoria you get when you receive your tax refund–that is, until you remember it was your money to begin with. 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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0:25.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:31.0	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:32.0	And I'm Martha Barnett. A
0:34.4	sniglet is a silly made-up term for something that hasn't been defined as a single
0:39.0	word but perhaps ought to be. for example, intoxication.
0:43.6	You know, that's the euphoria that you get,
0:45.4	getting a tax refund before you realize
0:47.6	that it was your money in the first place, right?
0:49.8	Right, right, right.
0:51.6	And what I particularly like about intoxication is that it defines a feeling because I think that when translating emotions, words really do fall short a lot of times.
1:03.0	And I've been thinking about this,
1:05.0	especially after an email we got from Christina Smith.
1:08.0	She's from San Diego,
1:10.0	and she sent us a link to something called Emotionary.com and it's this whimsical
1:15.1	collection of sniglids that specifically pertain to emotion like this one
1:21.0	Exocism can you guess what exochism exochism no idea that's the act of
1:26.6	torturing oneself by thinking about the existence of or compulsively checking
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