Peter, Nick and Fraser mansplain the adoption of new vocabulary for any wordies out there - totes adorbs.

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Things mentioned in this podcast:

- Plotkin paper on information theory and language evolution https://langev.com/pdf/plotkin00languageEvolution.pdf

- Bentz et al on entropy across different languages http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~lpearl/colareadinggroup/readings/BentzEtAl2017_CrossLingEntropy.pdf

- Linguistic determinism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concepts/#LinDetLinRel

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