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From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I'm John McWater and today I want to discuss an aspect of how language works and how language changes

that you really don't hear about very much and yet it's absolutely central to understanding

this thing that we do which is talking. I want to use at the start here a certain analogy.

Let's listen to what I truly consider one of the best three minutes of recorded sound ever.

Here goes I love the Nightlife.

If you remember how this marvelous song ends, if you remember something other than the very

deaf key change near the end, you remember that it didn't actually end. It just faded out like this.

If you think about it, fade outs are now a thing of the past. It's like synthesizers in pop music.

We think of it as something fondly cute about pop music especially in the 70s.

But you might ask what happened to the fade out? You might ask why did it only become so popular

in the 70s? Recording technology would have allowed it as early as the 20s as far as I know.

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