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235: Worst Words (featuring Don Watson)
Are our vocabularies shrinking? Is bureaucratic double-talk a sinister form of code designed to short-circuit original thought? Author Don Watson thinks so, and explains why in his latest book Worst Words. But how does this view stack up to language science? Don Watson goes head to head with linguist Daniel Midgley on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Are our vocabularies shrinking? Is bureaucratic double-talk a sinister form of code designed to short-circuit original thought? Author Don Watson thinks so, and explains why in his latest book Worst Words. But how does this view stack up to language science? Don Watson goes head to head with linguist Daniel Midgley on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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