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Connections: Understanding how language evolves
We discuss how language evolves, and how seemingly innocuous words or phrases can take on entirely new meanings. We also discuss how to recognize words or language that used to mean one thing, but now mean another. Our guests: Maya Abtahian , assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester Jeff Spevak , writer, and arts and culture contributor for WXXI News
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We discuss how language evolves, and how seemingly innocuous words or phrases can take on entirely new meanings. We also discuss how to recognize words or language that used to mean one thing, but now mean another. Our guests: Maya Abtahian , assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester Jeff Spevak , writer, and arts and culture contributor for WXXI News
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