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68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

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

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How Did You Find Your Way Through the Elimination of the Weakest Thing?

I went to university with the ambition of becoming a theoretical physicist. But I was just bored out of my mind with it. So at the end of first year, I dropped physics and I dropped philosophy. It's subtractive. A lot of really good things are subjective. You were finding your way through a process of elimination of the weakest links. We're here in the interview spot. This is apparently the because language interview area. And we've got our coffee. The show will be on Channel 4 from 9pm tonight.

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