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If you speak both German and Spanish, you may find yourself reaching for a German word instead of a Spanish one, and vice versa. This puzzling experience is so common among polyglots that linguists have a name for it. Also, the best writers create luscious, long sentences using the same principles that make for a musician's melodious phrasing or a tightrope walker's measured steps. Finally, want to say something is wild and crazy in Norwegian? You can use a slang phrase that translates as "That's totally Texas!" Plus happenstance, underwear euphemisms, pooh-pooh, scrappy, fret, gedunk, tartar sauce, antejentacular, and the many ways to pronounce the word experiment.
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By Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.4.6
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If you speak both German and Spanish, you may find yourself reaching for a German word instead of a Spanish one, and vice versa. This puzzling experience is so common among polyglots that linguists have a name for it. Also, the best writers create luscious, long sentences using the same principles that make for a musician's melodious phrasing or a tightrope walker's measured steps. Finally, want to say something is wild and crazy in Norwegian? You can use a slang phrase that translates as "That's totally Texas!" Plus happenstance, underwear euphemisms, pooh-pooh, scrappy, fret, gedunk, tartar sauce, antejentacular, and the many ways to pronounce the word experiment.
Listen to all episodes for free: https://waywordradio.org/
Support the show to keep episodes coming: https://waywordradio.org/donate
Your responses, questions, and comments are welcomed at any time!
https://waywordradio.org/contact
[email protected]
Listener line 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the US and Canada
Text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673
Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. All rights reserved.

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