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1.05: The Crackpots and These Women (with Eli Attie)

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The President's Pronunciation of Pakistan

One of my linguistic pet peaves. Can i point out a solecism? The president's pronunciation of pakiston is one of those things, like when people say literally after something that actually they do n't mean literly. I remember now seeing that episode for the first time and thinking a little bit like j lenne playing himself later in, i think, season one. It felt to me like something aaron might not have done later. This basket ball teased her, i liked it. There were no contemporary pop culture references on the show, very rarely. Aron really didn't want them. And his reason was, he always used to say, you know, the

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