Road Trip! - 26 May 2008
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 26 May 2008
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:27.0 | 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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