Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Well, snap! It's another newsletter from "A Way with Words," the pluperfect radio show.

Did you hear the program this past weekend? If not, you missed a brand-new doozy from the boozy two-sy (kidding about "boozy"...as far as you know). We touched on changing advertising language in a down economy, agita, William Trembletoes, piping hot, feeling all stabby, over yonder, and "ping me!" No, ping you! Get all that and more here:

https://waywordradio.org/going-for-that-anti-marketing-dollar/

Also, last week we posted a special minicast in which Grant interviewed author, humorist, and "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" panelist Roy Blount Jr. He talks about his books and the Authors Guild dispute with Amazon over the Kindle 2 ebook reader.

https://waywordradio.org/a-conversation-with-roy-blount-jr/

Here are a few links from the world of language:

"Fresh Air" language commentator Geoff Nunberg has a new collection of essays, "The Years of Talking Dangerously."

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1402

How can somebody be more than 100% committed to something?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8020340.stm

Mark Peters criticizes the media for not having the brass necessary to point out when government officials resort to lexical evasions.

http://www.good.is/post/tortured-language/

One study suggests that a visual-processing area of the brain recognizes common words as whole units. Another study reveals that the brain operates two fast parallel systems for reading, linking visual recognition of words to speech.

http://tinyurl.com/dzxvmj

--Oliver Lutz Radtke's books, "Chinglish: Found in Translation" and its recently published sequel, "More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues," have sold very well.

http://tinyurl.com/cmh63j

Best wishes,

Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett
Co-hosts of A Way with Words
https://waywordradio.org
words@waywordradio.org

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