12: Mailbag: Will Ben Get It Right? - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

from 2020-10-20T04:00

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The questions keep coming! Let’s answer them.

  • Why is “Live Laugh Love” in that order?
  • Why do we talk about “getting out the vote”?
  • Why is the L sound creeping into some words?
  • What can computer languages tell us about human languages?
  • Is there a word for turning a label into an insult, like Dumbocrats or Repuglicans?

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