Thrown for a Loop - 23 December 2013

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🗓️ 22 December 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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We all lead busy lives—so are speed reading courses a good idea? Plus, if you hear someone speaking with a British accent, do you tend to assume they’re somehow more intelligent? And some common English surnames tell us stories about life in the Middle Ages. Plus, a 29-letter word for the fear of the number 666, games and riddles, military brats, knocked for a loop, the first dirty word, and book recommendations for math lovers. 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/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.4	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:34.4	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:36.0	The other night I went to a performance at a theater here in San Diego, and a few minutes
0:39.8	before the lights went down, I thought, well, I'll check in on Facebook
0:43.2	and see if I can connect with people here.
0:45.0	And so I got all absorbed in doing that, and then I glanced up
0:48.9	and I realized that every single person in my immediate proximity was all absorbed in looking at their
0:55.1	smartphones and I just thought there's something wrong with that.
0:58.9	You know, I mean here's this communal situation and we're all staring at our phones and the next day we got an
1:04.9	email from Gina Conte she's in Santa Monica California she had the very same
1:09.4	experience and she coined a word that she'd like to popularize it's Tech Gether. Tech Gether.
1:15.7	Tech Gether, you know, we're all tech-gether in this situation where we're all these
1:19.9	little human silos, you know? And next to each other, commuting with somebody in a device but not the people
1:24.9	sitting next to you exactly a little glowing screen the people whose very breath that you are about to
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