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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

Road Trip! - 26 May 2008

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2008

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, a listener says his friend Harold likes to do social phoning while driving, so he’s invented a term for mindless calling while in the car. And no, it’s not “car-pe diem.” Also, Martha and Grant also discuss the rules of the road games padiddle and slug bug. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Away with Words? I'm Grant Barrett.

0:35.6

And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant we got an email the other day from a fellow named

0:39.1

Greg Ferry from here in Carlsbad, California, and Greg thinks there ought to be a word for talking

0:44.9

while driving.

0:45.9

I agree with him.

0:46.8

He says that a certain friend of his, quote, drives long distances and during these long times

0:52.4

he pulls out his cell phone and calls people with whom he hasn't

0:55.1

spoken in some time or failing that someone who will listen to him. Now

1:00.5

Greg's friend's name is Harold so he wants to propose the verb to Harold, meaning to call

1:05.6

someone using a mobile phone to chat in a very social way while traveling from one place

1:10.0

to another.

1:11.0

And I don't know, Grant, I agree that there should be a word for this it

1:13.4

happens all the time here in Southern California but I don't know heralding I mean

1:18.0

that guy just cut me off in traffic and look at that he was heralding. Well you know they do that in New York too.

1:25.0

They do drive and they pull them over because talking on the cell phone while you're

1:28.0

driving here in the city is illegal.

1:30.0

Well it should be.

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