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” (29:35)
Music bumper from “Road to Rhodes” by Scott Helm (32:36)
Sports metaphors in everyday speech (33:16)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network and IODA Promonet
Theme music by Kick the Cat
time: 41:16
size: 37.8 Mb
rating: PG-13 (We discuss the sexual meaning of some metaphors from baseball.)
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