Spit Game (Rebroadcast) - 8 August 2016
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A Way with Words
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đď¸ 8 August 2016
âąď¸ 52 minutes
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| 0:27.8 | You're listening to Away with Words, a show about language and how we use it. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:34.2 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:35.9 | When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the first century, it covered the city of Pompeii and it left a lot of things intact including ancient graffiti. |
| 0:46.0 | And I've been looking at some of the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii, and it's really fascinating. |
| 0:51.0 | It's sort of a reminder that some things never change. A lot of the graffiti is really personal. |
| 0:58.5 | It mentions people by name like Celadis the Thracian makes the girls moan. |
| 1:04.0 | There's a lot of naughty graffiti if I remember correctly. |
| 1:07.0 | There's a lot of awfully naughty graffiti that I can't share on the air, |
| 1:10.0 | but these personal ones are really interesting that a lot of it's boastful like |
| 1:14.6 | Floronius privileged soldier of the seventh Legion was here the women did not |
| 1:19.6 | know of his presence only six women came to know too few for such a stallion. |
| 1:27.0 | Good go and felonious. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, right. And then I really like this one. It's, I've caught a cold. That's it? |
| 1:35.6 | I've caught a cold. Yes. And there's something so touching to me about that. |
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