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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

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

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Using Metaphors in Languages

The word arrive itself is the result of a mismatch of a language change. When the word was first coined, it had to be a river. And then gradually we changed it to expand it. We see this happening again and again in languages around the world. But you can also have this kind of metaphorical shift happening.

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