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50: Employing Linguistics (with Anna Marie Trester and Ellen)

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

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The Academic Urge to Never Get a New Computer

The next word is a phrase and it's actually not from Twitter. It's from TikTok and it's the urge to. So like I posted and everyone liked it because I said the academic urge to never get a new computer. And it's, I see people posting all kinds of things, but you can just say the urge to something and then you don't have to form a complete sentence. Does it have to be the something urge, like the masculine urge to give your opinion? Yes. But maybe there's a better one. There doesn't seem a lot of wiggle room there. Yeah. Allistic. That was a word of the year from the American dialect society.

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