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50: Employing Linguistics (with Anna Marie Trester and Ellen)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Alphabet Mafia

A non polar question is a question where you can't answer yes or no. Often it's alternatives like do you want a blue spark or some pink spark on your cake? Yes. I remember somebody in a reader's digest story talking about their unusual mother who was asked to fill in a government form. Do you advocate the overthrow of the United States government by force or violence? And she thought for a moment and said, force. It wasn't intended to be alternative question but she wrote it that way. If you've noticed it in a language that isn't English, tell me. The last one, which I have also picked up from TikTok and I thought it meant something else than

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