117. Many Ways At Once
The Allusionist
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i helen saltzman tries not to disturb language's nest. A couple of years ago, in the episode called ut in the open, we talked about scots a language recovering from hundreds of years of oppression. When you dig into the words that you can use for l g b t plus people, you realize how much ideology and how much can a social assumption is built into every word that we use. Thet englishis kind of supposed universality, its pretence to be the language of a science,. We don't realize what assumptions are leading in that.
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