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Slate Debates

There Are Two N-Words

Slate Debates

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, News

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

Nautic nature is ever changing and unpredictable.

0:05.1

Shifting between wind, sun and rain, but one thing is certain, this landscape shares its

0:10.8

goodness with us all.

0:12.6

Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink, made with simple, all-natural ingredients,

0:18.4

and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields.

0:22.4

Yard, inspired by Nordic nature, find it in the chill, deri alternative's aisle.

0:29.1

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:37.4

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

0:41.4

I'm John McWater, and I want to kick off the year doing something I don't usually do.

0:46.4

I'm going to rip something from the headlines.

0:48.7

Rip it from the headlines.

0:50.1

I know that some of you may be disappointed that I don't do that more often.

0:55.0

I'm tossing around comments about old English and strunken white and bugs bunny, but not

1:00.6

what Donald Trump said last week.

1:02.9

It's on purpose that I don't do that.

1:05.3

I figure there's enough of that being done well elsewhere in the market.

1:09.5

Sometimes, you've got to get real, and especially when linguistics can help us understand something,

1:16.6

that otherwise can seem frustrated or less politely just plain stupid.

1:21.5

I'm going to circle in on it.

1:24.4

You probably already know from what the title of this episode will probably be what we're

1:28.2

going to do.

1:29.2

Let's start from the outside, because that approach is almost always one that can help us understand

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