http://thewordnerds.org A podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 ©Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd shepdave@gmail.com (Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd) shepdave@gmail.com(Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd) 1440 A podcast about words, language, and why we say the things we do Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd shepdave@gmail.com No no http://thewordnerds.org/images/wordnerdsavatar.jpg http://thewordnerds.org 144 144 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/06/okay-its-fixed/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/06/okay-its-fixed/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:17:52 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/06/okay-its-fixed/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/06/okay-its-fixed/feed/ 4 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/05/podcast-problems/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/05/podcast-problems/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:39:20 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/05/podcast-problems/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/06/05/podcast-problems/feed/ 0 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/05/29/where-did-we-go/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/05/29/where-did-we-go/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 09:23:28 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/05/29/where-did-we-go/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/05/29/where-did-we-go/feed/ 8 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/12/our-look-is-back/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/12/our-look-is-back/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:16:35 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/12/our-look-is-back/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/12/our-look-is-back/feed/ 0 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/08/pardon-our-plainness/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/08/pardon-our-plainness/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:39:24 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/08/pardon-our-plainness/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/02/08/pardon-our-plainness/feed/ 4 http://thewordnerds.org/2007/01/27/modal-verbs-84/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/01/27/modal-verbs-84/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:33:39 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2007/01/27/modal-verbs-84/ http://thewordnerds.org/2007/01/27/modal-verbs-84/feed/ 6 30:31 Howard Shepherd and Dave Shepherd should, can, and must discuss modal verbs. Howard gives a shoutout to Henrik Hansen and to the Danish language-related podcast Sproghjoslash;rnet. ... Howard Shepherd and Dave Shepherd should, can, and must discuss modal verbs. Howard gives a shoutout to Henrik Hansen and to the Danish language-related podcast Sproghjoslash;rnet. (2:17) Howard and Dave give an overview of auxiliary verbs, of which modal verbs are a subset. (3:17) Music bumper from "Just Looking," by The Jerrys (9:32) Modal verbs and grammatical mood (10:11) Song: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring," by Tom Waits (15:49) Rude word of the week: "wannabe" (18:14) Music bumper from "Melancolica" by Mauricio Cuburu (22:08) Modal verbs in languages other than English (22:49) Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network Theme music by Kick the Cat time: 30:31 size: 28 Mb rating: G (We managed to talk about this without being rude.) barbara,,blog,,dave,,howard,s.,,podcast,,rhetoric Dave Shepherd, Howard Shepherd, Howard Chang, Barbara Shepherd no No http://thewordnerds.org/2006/12/15/feed-issues-and-itunes/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/12/15/feed-issues-and-itunes/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:43:03 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2006/12/15/feed-issues-and-itunes/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/12/15/feed-issues-and-itunes/feed/ 11 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/11/22/about-our-navigation-column/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/11/22/about-our-navigation-column/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:00:05 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2006/11/22/about-our-navigation-column/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/11/22/about-our-navigation-column/feed/ 4 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/10/09/sorry-about-the-missed-weekend/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/10/09/sorry-about-the-missed-weekend/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:33:25 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2006/10/09/sorry-about-the-missed-weekend/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/10/09/sorry-about-the-missed-weekend/feed/ 3 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/06/22/the-forum-is-running/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/06/22/the-forum-is-running/#comments Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:08:15 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2006/06/22/the-forum-is-running/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/06/22/the-forum-is-running/feed/ 4 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/25/sorry-for-the-ugliness/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/25/sorry-for-the-ugliness/#comments Thu, 25 May 2006 17:20:45 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/25/sorry-for-the-ugliness/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/25/sorry-for-the-ugliness/feed/ 0 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/10/another-blog-update/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/10/another-blog-update/#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 15:13:07 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.info/2006/05/10/another-blog-update/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/10/another-blog-update/feed/ 0 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/09/some-changes-coming/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/09/some-changes-coming/#comments Tue, 09 May 2006 15:09:43 +0000 Dave http://thewordnerds.info/2006/05/09/some-changes-coming/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/09/some-changes-coming/feed/ 0 http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/#comments Mon, 01 May 2006 15:01:06 +0000 Howard S. http://thewordnerds.info/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/ http://thewordnerds.org/2006/05/01/language-race-and-homophonic-creep/feed/ 1