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Episode 201: Words and Words

Words & Numbers

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Words and Numbers

The name of the podcast is words and numbers. This episode, we want to talk about words specifically this weirdness that on the one hand for words to be useful, they have to have a fixed meaning. The Oxford English Dictionary decided last year that the word literally could mean actually literally or figuratively. How the hell did we get here? I've been seriously, how did we gethere?

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