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'The Elongated Yellow Fruit': On diction
Manage episode 358695132 series 3424318
Do you nictitate, or do you blink? Were the Clampetts new-money, or would you call them parvenus or arrivistes? When it comes to word choice, English draws the battle lines across a few fronts: the plainspoken versus the purple, the Saxonic versus the Latinate, Hemingway versus Nabokov. So let's get into it.
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show notes:
Protest Periphrasis: How the words used to describe the actions of police hide their violence, Mike Laws, CJR
章节
1. Tone, audience, and People magazine (00:07:24)
2. Sesquipedality: Pomposity or dignity? (00:13:44)
3. Pack a punch: Saxonic v Latinate words (00:28:04)
4. Periphrasis and the summer of 2020 (00:35:26)
5. Word repetition and ‘synonym hopping’ (00:47:46)
6. Track changes: Precarity and double spaces (00:55:15)
35集单集
Manage episode 358695132 series 3424318
Do you nictitate, or do you blink? Were the Clampetts new-money, or would you call them parvenus or arrivistes? When it comes to word choice, English draws the battle lines across a few fronts: the plainspoken versus the purple, the Saxonic versus the Latinate, Hemingway versus Nabokov. So let's get into it.
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show notes:
Protest Periphrasis: How the words used to describe the actions of police hide their violence, Mike Laws, CJR
章节
1. Tone, audience, and People magazine (00:07:24)
2. Sesquipedality: Pomposity or dignity? (00:13:44)
3. Pack a punch: Saxonic v Latinate words (00:28:04)
4. Periphrasis and the summer of 2020 (00:35:26)
5. Word repetition and ‘synonym hopping’ (00:47:46)
6. Track changes: Precarity and double spaces (00:55:15)
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