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52: The Language Game (with Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater)

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The Puzzle of Danish

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin takes up to eight showers a day when every suffers from writer's block. Two Danish speakers don't want to admit that they can't understand each other, so they just sort of make up these words and one of them is Camilloso. We call it can call it Russian dawling. But groundhogging is very good because now that takes Groundhog Day, which has already syntactically changed, right? There you go.

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