The following podcast contains explicit language.

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

I'm John McWater, and you know I got a haircut recently, where I get my hair cut.

Everybody is Dominican but me.

And so for some reason they're all speaking Spanish.

And I was just listening as you could imagine.

I was, and there was somebody saying,

so they weren't saying, también, not and your mother, también.

They're saying, tampoco.

So, también, that's also, you know everybody even with baby Spanish knows that.

Now that if you have toddler Spanish, tampoco, me either.

So, tampi, tampoco.

And they're in the kind of opposition.

Tampoco is the negative, tampi.

It got me thinking.

Usually where I get subjects for these shows, if it isn't somebody's suggestion,

is some random thing.

Just got me thinking, it's funny how you negate things.

There's something interesting about that and just about any language.

And between my Dominican haircut experience and the fact that a certain someone wants me

to do a show about this, I decided that I'm going to do a show about no-ing things,

as in notting things.

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