Myth and Legend (85)

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on February 17, 2007
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Howard Chang and Dave Shepherd tell some tall tales about myth, legend, and language.

Dave encourages listeners to digg our podcast (see the sidebar on the right side of our main blog page) and to visit the Word Nerds Forum to participate in the thread about this show. (2:52)

Myth and legend: Why do they exist? What kinds of stories are they? (4:06)

Music bumper from “Natural Man” by Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials (22:26)

Myth and language: words that come from mythology (22:51)

Song: “Mythical Frederick” by Tom Smith (26:05)

Rude word of the week: “bullshit” (28:05)

Music bumper from “Tell Me a Bedtime Story” by the Jay Lawrence Trio (32:26)

Hidden mythological etymologies (”hidden mythetymologies”) (33:14)

Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network and IODA Promonet

Theme music by Kick the Cat

Closing music from “Grapes” by Evan Stone

time: 41:02

size: 37.6 Mb

rating: PG-13 (The Rude Word is probably ruder than middle-school kids should be tossing around in the hallways–at least at this moment in history.)

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  1. 1 Charles Hodgson
    February 19, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Well, I dugg it. Frankly I’m still trying to figure out this digg stuff.

  2. 2 Dave
    February 19, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    Thanks, Charles.

    Yeah, I’m trying to figure out all this Web 2.0 stuff too. It’s a bit overwhelming. Digg does one kind of thing; del.icio.us does something else, Technorati something else again.

    By the time I figure it all out, we’ll have moved to Web 3.0, I’m sure!

  3. 3 Jonathon Mah
    February 21, 2007 at 8:21 am

    The “boul” root of “bullshit” immediately brought to mind the word “balderdash”. Etymonline doesn’t make the connection though.

  4. 4 Wander Gomes
    February 21, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Portuguese (at least the Brazilian one) also have different words for story (estória) and History (História). But as far as I know “estória” was imported from English anyway.

  5. 5 Smaran
    February 27, 2007 at 12:20 am

    Great episode, as always, guys. I’m sorry I don’t comment more often, but I’m listening in.

  6. 6 Dave
    February 27, 2007 at 5:35 am

    Good to hear from you again, Smaran. I’ve been working on my own blog (as well as this Word Nerds one), and it not only has some real content, it looks much prettier!

  7. 7 Smaran
    February 27, 2007 at 5:42 am

    You didn’t post for months, so I unsubscribed from your blog, Dave. I’ll just go add the feed again. :-)

  8. 8 Marcos
    March 5, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    Hi,

    I’m Brazilian and I’m studying the English language. Always I download the podcast and he’s really very good, but I have a big difficult to understand it. Do you can analyses the possibility to make a file with text of podcast. This would be amazing because I would can listen and read to understand better

    Good bye

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