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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 Get the Related Words Nearer to the Verb

English is a subject-verb-object language. If you want to have words or phrases as close to each other as possible, if they are related. So what we shift the pattern in English quite strongly is the one you put closest to the verb should be a short one. This movie would give anyone who's even slightly nervous the creeps. I could say that gives me the creeps. But if it's a very long date of then I can do it.

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