Dave Shepherd and Howard Shepherd try not to run their words together as they discuss slurring and elision in spoken language.
Responses to listener emails. Howard was recently a guest on EatFeed. (1:51)
Dysarthria: pathological elision (9:47)
Elision as an agent of language change: “everyday” elision and “expedient” elision (11:24)
Music bumper from by “Telepop” by The Jerrys (17:47)
Elision in the learning of other languages (18:25)
Song: “Whatcha Gotta Say for Yourself,” by Phil Golub (22:20)
Rude word of the week: “mofo” (27:10)
Music bumper from “Tonight,” by Zach Ashton (31:33)
The inverse of elision: hypercorrection (32:02)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network
Theme music by Kick the Cat
time: 38:13
size: 26.2 Mb
rating: R (Our Rude Word is an elision of one of the most taboo words in North American English–and we explicate it.)
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