Why Language is Always Changing with Valerie Fridland
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Unseen Thread of Language
stand-up comedy has its own language it has its own way of speaking. George Carlin famously did a bit about how you kill you crush right if you did well and you die if you if you bomb you bomb right there's all these words about violence um but this is happening in a million subcultures around the world at every single moment. It's such a beautiful thing about language and and all we can really do is is hope to describe it and and use it to understand each other rather than make rules around it.
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