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

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What's the Limitation of an Auto Antonym?

Daniel and Ben can see the vote ticking up on the different options. The rest of us please can just vote and then wait. Did you all just hear that? That was a very loud door driving past my building. Clearly, I was like one of those novelty car ones is like, no, good old Perth. Okay, I'm going to close it off here. Most people said only locals go to the area. But there's a problem here. What restricted is an auto antonym? Oh, yeah. You mean a contronym? Yeah, like it's like sanction, right? Like it can mean the opposite thing. It's restricted, meaning you can't.

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