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195. They're Still Booing Root, with Todd Murphy and Ali Martin

The Grade Cricketer

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The Linguist, the Lexicon, and a Linguistic Analysis of My Brethren

i want to talk about the lexicon, the linguist, and a linguistic analysis of my brethren. The central conceit of champion s is that you reappropriate the ultimate acolade, champ, often heard in boxing, by using it to address someone who is clearly not that onow. You're addressing me as champion. I'm ian, third class at school. Your calling me champion, you're condescending, yes. So i believe my brethren is from the same school as champion. Weoll we could all feel, instinctively, intuitively, that that durrant was doing something by calling him my brethren. That's some culturaly layeed. Nice. A nice

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