You Talk Like a Sausage (Rebroadcast) - 23 January 2023
A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
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Is There a Difference Between People and Wild Animals?
The more I live with animals, Chris, the more I'm inclined to use the pronoun who rather than that when talking about them. It really depends on context though. Body has been used to refer to a person for at least 700 years, body alone. There's like a certain amount of like connection that you have that we have with other living beings. But it's also strange to just put it at living because like plants, you wouldn't say somebody about a plant, but that's living.
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