Comments on: Language, Race and Homophonic Creep http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/ A podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Thomas http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/#comment-40 Thomas Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:32:21 +0000 http://thewordnerds.info/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/#comment-40 Hello Word Nerds! First of all, let me tell you that your podcast is one of only two(!) I listen to regularly. I discovered your podcast about a year ago through Annik Rubens of "Schlaflos in München" (whom I listened to when I first discovered podcasting). I've never thought about word nerdishness before but I guess I have to consider myself a word nerd, too. I'm 41 years old, live in Bielefeld, Germany, I'm an anesthesiologist, I'm a guitarist and bassist and I love Jazz. I love the american language, most of my online life is in english. Your podcast is almost perfect for me! The only time when I can be pretty much sure to be undisturbed is on my daily commute to work (25 min one way). That gives me about an hour of podcasts every day. I mean, how are you supposed to listen to all that great stuff that's out there? At this time I regularly listen to the Daily Source Code. And the Word Nerds. Can you tell I never use my iPod for actually listening to music? Now, on to my comment regarding homophobic language. Adam Curry explored the word 'gay' in his episode no. 400 of the DSC. I was surprised to hear that the BBC declared the word politically correct and not humiliating for a homosexual. Apparently, gay means 'rubbish' in "modern playground speak". I suggest you check out at least that episode of his podcast. But I guess you subscribed to it a long time ago anyway ;-) Oh, by the way, the embedded mp3 player on this site is really cool (I use it myself) and I definitely have to check out the code of that link that hides the player... All the best Thomas Hello Word Nerds!
First of all, let me tell you that your podcast is one of only two(!) I listen to regularly. I discovered your podcast about a year ago through Annik Rubens of “Schlaflos in München” (whom I listened to when I first discovered podcasting). I’ve never thought about word nerdishness before but I guess I have to consider myself a word nerd, too.
I’m 41 years old, live in Bielefeld, Germany, I’m an anesthesiologist, I’m a guitarist and bassist and I love Jazz. I love the american language, most of my online life is in english. Your podcast is almost perfect for me!
The only time when I can be pretty much sure to be undisturbed is on my daily commute to work (25 min one way). That gives me about an hour of podcasts every day. I mean, how are you supposed to listen to all that great stuff that’s out there? At this time I regularly listen to the Daily Source Code. And the Word Nerds. Can you tell I never use my iPod for actually listening to music?

Now, on to my comment regarding homophobic language. Adam Curry explored the word ‘gay’ in his episode no. 400 of the DSC. I was surprised to hear that the BBC declared the word politically correct and not humiliating for a homosexual. Apparently, gay means ‘rubbish’ in “modern playground speak”. I suggest you check out at least that episode of his podcast. But I guess you subscribed to it a long time ago anyway ;-)
Oh, by the way, the embedded mp3 player on this site is really cool (I use it myself) and I definitely have to check out the code of that link that hides the player…

All the best
Thomas

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