Steamed Bun - 20 March 2017
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 20 March 2017
⏱️ 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. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 0:35.5 | On our Facebook group, Fred Rosen of Boynton Beach, Florida, |
| 0:39.5 | raised an interesting question about the language that people use to talk about their age. |
| 0:45.4 | His cousin calls himself 50 plus. |
| 0:48.5 | He says, I was 50 years old for one day and now I'm 50 plus. Just one day I was 50. But he's going to think he's 59. |
| 0:57.3 | Really? If he's under 51 then he's cheating himself out of some really good years there. |
| 1:02.3 | When you're a kid, those individual numbers mean a whole lot, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, and even the numbers in between, you know, I'm four and a half, I'm five and a half. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, my son counts the months, partly because the birthday's at the end of it and he knows that gifts are coming. But yes. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, does it? Okay. But then you know you get to a certain age and you just say your regular age or at least I have and then you get a little bit older and you |
| 1:26.0 | sometimes start to fudge it or you forget. |
| 1:29.2 | Do you literally forget your own birth? |
| 1:30.7 | I have to stop and think, well how old am I? And a lot of people chimed in on this |
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