Archive for October, 2006
Howard Shepherd and Dave Shepherd get their game faces on as they talk about the language of sports.
The vocabulary of sport: rule-based terms and slang terms (1:58)
Music bumper from “Natural Man,” by Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials (21:36)
How sports language functions (22:03)
Song: “Sitting Around Keeping Score,” by Spymob (26:11)
Rude word of the week: “palooka” […]
Dave Shepherd and Howard Chang talk about derivatives–words that come from other words and how we came to love them.
The derivation of “derivative” (2:42)
How we became infatuated with derivatives (5:17)
Music bumper from “Court of Greedy Kings,” by Val Davis (11:07)
Word Power through derivatives (”plant that seed, watch it grow”) (11:23)
Song: “Carbon Copy” by Sister Machine […]
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