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54: Slang (with Jonathon Green)

Jun 15, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
Is There a Content Warning for This Episode?
03:00 • 2min
3
We're Going to Have a Potluck Live Episode
04:56 • 2min
4
Segue Is an Art Form
06:44 • 2min
5
How to Discover if Someone's Really South African
09:03 • 3min
6
Is There a Problem With Ryanair?
12:00 • 3min
7
Is Language a Sliding Scale?
14:41 • 2min
8
What Are the Chimps Doing?
17:04 • 3min
9
Are They Recombining Sounds?
19:50 • 3min
10
Is It Caused by the Physiognomy of Our Vocal Tract?
22:59 • 3min
11
Is It Random or Is There a Pattern?
25:35 • 2min
12
Are We Unconfused? Um, I Don't Know.
27:22 • 2min
13
Can the California Endangered Species Act Protect Bees?
29:00 • 2min
14
What's the Difference Between Fish and Invertebrates?
31:03 • 2min
15
Lawyers Should Get to Define Everything
32:48 • 2min
16
What Would Ocean Honey Taste Like?
34:37 • 2min
17
The World Is Ending
36:11 • 4min
18
The Slang of the Saurus
39:49 • 4min
19
What Is the Purpose of Talking About Slang?
44:08 • 2min
20
What Is Slang?
46:37 • 3min
21
Slang Without Drugs
49:39 • 5min
22
The Larrickan, the Subversive Mentality
54:11 • 4min
23
What Slang Is About?
57:45 • 4min
24
The Words That Slang Uses
01:02:09 • 5min
25
Slang Is Always 17, but I'm Not
01:06:45 • 2min
26
What's Your Favorite Slang Word?
01:08:58 • 3min
27
Morbius and Variations
01:12:26 • 2min
28
Swedengate - The Worst Thing Ever?
01:14:02 • 2min
29
Scandinavian and Northern European Cooking
01:15:35 • 2min
30
Drinking Out in Scandinavia Can Be Really Expensive
01:17:25 • 2min
31
Why Isn't Alcohol Really Cheap?
01:19:00 • 2min
32
The Problems With Racism in Sweden
01:21:15 • 2min
33
Sweden Politics
01:23:40 • 3min
34
Using the Term 'Linguistic Shift'
01:26:14 • 2min
35
I Choose to Be Bad at Math
01:27:48 • 1min
36
Is Platinny Jubes a British People Doing This?
01:29:17 • 2min
37
Charles Just Got the Job, We Let's Give Him a Fair Shot
01:30:54 • 2min
38
Swedengate Lingo Shift and Pluttedubes Are Words of the Week
01:32:34 • 2min
39
Donnie, You Have to Write Something and I'll Read It Out?
01:34:42 • 3min