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70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

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

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The Swaddish List Is Not Relatively Important.

We think that things that people say a lot tend to get like phonologically worn down. But I'm not sure if that's really true. Could they have just got it wrong? Like is this just a case of like a word now accidentally sounds and looks a lot like a word from back then)? 2000 years ago is not ages ago. Yeah and it's a very long word.

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