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Podcast: A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
Episode: Lie Like a Rug (Rebroadcast) - 28 August 2017
Description: The words we choose can change attitudes â and change lives. A swing-dance instructor has switched to gender-neutral language when teaching couples. He says that using words like âleaderâ and âfollowerâ actually works better than using gendered terms. But not everyone agrees. Plus, a pithy observation about how stray comments can seem meaningless at the time, but can lodge in other people like seeds and start growing. Plus, slang you might hear in Albuquerque, sufficiently suffonsified, make ends meet, cut a chogi, and minders, finders, and grinders.Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and q...