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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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What Is Slang?

There's a bird that produces a kind of wax out of its butt. It puts it on the feathers and it makes the tips a different color. So if they're trying to show off for the opposite gender, is it that they're not slang sounds like it's probably not slang. But you can also say procuring is slang for bye If you want. Right? As opposed to like a variety, which we would call it if we were being fancy pants linguists, right? Yeah. Or like there's a post-synonym or like that’s a fancy way of saying, you know, procuring is a fancy ways of saying bye. Yes.

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