Strawberry Moon - 8 April 2019

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🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We asked for your thoughts about whether cursive writing should be taught in schools — and many of you replied with a resounding “Yes!” You said cursive helps develop fine motor skills, improves mental focus, and lets you read old handtoodlewritten letters and other documents. Also in this episode: finding your way to a more nuanced understanding of language. The more you know about linguistic diversity, the more you embrace those differences rather than criticize them. And a brain game using translations of Native American words for lunar months. During which month would you see a Strawberry Moon? Plus newstalgia, fauxstalgia, lethologica, by and large, pank, yay vs. yea, collywobbles, and carlymarbles. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. 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, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.1	And I'm Martha Barnett. We've all had the experience of trying to remember a word,
0:08.8	having something right on the tip of our tongue and just not being able to reach it.
0:14.0	And that experience made me appreciate this tweet
0:17.0	from someone who goes by the name Fisti on Twitter.
0:20.9	She said, when I was pregnant with my first, I cried one day because I forgot the word
0:25.5	banana. I described it to my then husband, it comes in its own case. It's yellow.
0:31.1	I can so relate to that.
0:35.0	Oh, it could have been it, yeah.
0:38.0	But there's a word for that.
0:40.0	Do you know the word for this?
0:42.0	No. Lithologica Lethologica.
0:44.0	Lethologica.
0:45.0	Yes, this is a...
0:46.0	Leith, I think I know that route.
0:48.0	Yeah, the river Leithy in Greek mythology was one of the several rivers in Haiti's. If you drank from this
0:54.4	particular river also known as the river of oblivion you would forget everything
0:59.0	the river leathy. River forgetting is how it learned it. Oh, really?
1:03.0	Okay, so you remember?
1:05.0	Yeah, I did remember that one.
1:07.0	Everything else is going though, so that's nice.
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