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The Word Nerds
Language: English
Category: Society and Culture /
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This weekly podcast explores words, language, and why we say the things we do. It is a relaxed but well informed exploration of language change, slang, taboo words, and other modes of expression on the edge of "standard" language. It will also feature new
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The Word Nerds|Music and Language (58) Episode
Barbara Shepherd returns for the second week as a guest Nerd. She and Dave Shepherd respond to an email from Fred Chalfant about Barbara's grandmother's name. (2:52)
Dave and Barbara, who are both musicians, talk about the importance of music in their lives. (4:23)
Music bumper from "Tonight" by Zach Ashton (9:11)
What music does to language: poetry, songs, musical theater, education (9:38)
Song: "Singing to Me," by Robin Stine (14:39)
Rude word of the week: "tone deaf" (18:09)
Promo for The Sound of Young America (21:23)
The special language of music: re-purposed words in English and musical vocabulary in Italian (22:04)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network
Theme music by Kick the Cat
time: 31:04
size: 21.3 Mb
rating: G (We talk about singing to our children when they were very young. Aw! Isn't that sweet?)
Categories: language, linguistics, barbara
[ Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:30:00 GMT ]
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