Rock Paper Scissors - 26 March 2012

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🗓️ 26 March 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Does the thought of going without your cellphone fill you with separation anxiety? Grant and Martha coin some monikers for this modern-day phobia. Also, what’s the best way to win at the game of rock, paper, scissors? Where might you fry eggs in a spider, and where would you refer to a Band-Aid as a plaster? Could sending your child to a language immersion school help the whole family learn a new language? Where’d we get the expression “When in Rome, do as the Romans do?” Also, Yiddish proverbs and slang from the streets to Capitol Hill. 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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0:00.0	You're listening to Away With Words. I'm Grant Barrett.
0:02.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:03.8	Grant, you love your cell phone, right?
0:05.4	Yes.
0:05.9	Right?
0:06.3	What do you have a little Android?
0:07.7	Yeah?
0:08.4	Got all your phone numbers in there. Yes. Synced with your Google Calendar, right? All the word games, that sort of thing. Oh, right. The word games. Right. Okay. Question for you. what would you feel if I took your phone away from you just just for a few days how
0:21.6	would you feel I I took your phone away from you? Just for a few days.
0:21.4	How would you feel?
0:22.1	I'd cry.
0:24.1	I would rather give up my postal mail, my landline, and half the electricity in my house.
0:31.0	Whoa.
0:33.3	I ask you this, Grant, because there's a word that's been circulating lately on the internet,
0:37.9	and it's a term for that fear of being without one's mobile phone.
0:41.9	Yes, I have seen this.
0:44.1	Nomephobia.
0:45.1	Nomephobia.
0:45.9	Yeah.
0:46.3	I got nomophon, right?
0:48.0	Yeah, or else you're afraid of little elves, you know, nomophobia.
0:52.2	But I suspect that you feel the same way I do about this term, which is that it was coined apparently four years ago by some market research firm and has been promoted by marketers and by journalists.
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