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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 to Start a New Sentence

If you start with old information, you reduce the strain on the listener's processing. And then you can gradually introduce the newer stuff through stepping stones of relationships. Anything could happen at the start of a story. Think about the first lines of novels and there are so many first lines you can have in a novel. Or first words. You just dropped in. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Mother died today. Once a fair time. When a man uses its... Can't get him over a lot. Exactly.

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