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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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What's Your Pronoun?

Dennis Beren is the author of What's Your Pronoun? The English only question. He says we're free to say anything we want, but there are always limits. There are limits that are imposed on us by law and social groups. We have writing now and much larger societies so we are bound to have real complex language.

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