68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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You Can't Omit So Much When You Use Metaphorically
There's so few things in language that we thought were categorical and they're not. When you pick those expressions up and use them metaphorically, you can't omit so much. You have to be more specific. As far as we know, it's a categorical thing.
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