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Lexicon Valley

Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak

Lexicon Valley

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8611 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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How do children pick up language so readily? X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Ryan Eggled from TV shows like New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, and of course, leave it to Beaver. You're on that? I was the Beaver. Didn't know. And I'm Adam Rose, an actor on TV, blue cardigan guy on your social medias, and Avid Speedwalker. We're the hosts of Small Stupid Stuff, an important new podcast from Studio 71. Ryan and I talk about the big issues, the heavy questions, pressing topics.

0:21.9

Like coffee date etiquette?

0:23.4

Best time to eat cereal.

0:24.9

And of course, whether you put your toilet paper over or under or around.

0:29.5

I don't know what around is.

0:30.9

I don't either, but I'm definitely an over man.

0:32.7

Yeah.

0:33.1

Every episode, we're joined by a celebrity guest who gives us their hottest takes on the stupidest,

0:38.7

smallest stuff.

0:39.6

Jocco Sims, Michelle Carrey, Alex Breckenridge, Pete Haversberger, Amber Childers.

0:46.6

Our goal is to solve the world's problems by finally figuring out the truth about crap that doesn't

0:51.8

matter.

0:52.3

So listen to Small Stupid stuff on Spotify, Apple

0:55.3

podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And watch us on YouTube, new episodes every Tuesday.

1:01.0

Stop.

1:04.4

From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. I'm John McWhorter, and, you know,

1:14.7

we're going to do something a little different this week, or at least a little different for me.

1:19.4

We're going to do a show about how kids learn language. A lot of you have asked me for this

1:26.0

over the past few years, and I haven't done it because,

1:28.8

frankly, I always thought I didn't care about the topic. No offense to anybody whose topic

1:34.1

this is, but I always kind of thought that it just wasn't my thing, and it was kind of like

1:39.9

the show for me is about sharing my toys, and I always thought of first language acquisition,

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