7: Mailbag of One Wrong Answer - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
from 2020-08-24T04:00
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Our ever-popular Mailbag is bursting with questions, so let’s get to them!
- How do you communicate expressively with a mask on?
- Which was the first language with a set spelling?
- Why is the word caterpillar so long? Did it come later?
- Why are some news outlets writing “since the pandemic begun“?
- As prescriptive linguists, can we reasonably disagree with someone’s definition of a word, if that definition is being used by people?
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