Punch List (Rebroadcast) - 17 April 2017

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A Way with Words

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🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Books for sale, books for free, and wisdom passed down through the ages. Libraries aren’t just repositories for books — they’re often a great place to find gently used volumes for sale. Or you can always visit a “little free library” — a neighborhood spot dedicated to recycling your own books, and picking up new ones for free. Plus: “When two elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers” — weighty proverbs from East Africa. Finally, the United States and the UK are separated by more than a common language: the way we talk about numbers is also surprisingly different, depending on which side of the pond you’re on. Also: “I don’t know him from Adam,” stargazy pie, “my dogs are barking,” and cheiloproclitic. Ruminate on that! 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 words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every episode of A Way With Words is a labor of love made possible by your support.
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0:15.8	You're listening to a way with words,
0:17.2	the show about language and how we use it.
0:18.9	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:19.9	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:21.2	I saw the most amazing play the other day.
0:24.8	It was called Our Lady of Cabejo.
0:27.2	Cabejo.
0:28.4	Which is in Rwanda.
0:29.9	And it's based on the true story that takes place in the 1980s of these girls at a Catholic boarding school there in the town of Cabejo.
0:38.7	They start having visions of the Virgin Mary and eventually they become local celebrities and they start having these
0:45.9	darker visions and they could be interpreted to have been a premonition of the genocide in 1994 and I have to say Grant the play itself is
0:57.3	thrilling it's astonishing it's gorgeous as was the production here at Moxie Theater in San Diego,
1:05.0	it just ended its run.
1:06.7	And the playwright, Katori Hall,
1:09.5	spent a lot of time in Rwanda researching the play. And I bring it up because. of
1:15.0	a time in Rwanda researching the play and I bring it up because there are several times in the play Our Lady of Cabejo where the characters speak in Proverbs
1:21.0	and that reminded me of discussions we've had here before about how in a lot of
1:26.0	cultures proverbs are much more woven into the fabric of everyday conversation. And so I got a copy of the script and I wanted to share a couple of the proverbs there that I really like.
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