I always upload Talk the Talk episodes on Tuesday morning, but today I decided to have a chat with the smooth-voiced James Hall of RTRfm. He had a question about hyphens. So here’s the clip.
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I always upload Talk the Talk episodes on Tuesday morning, but today I decided to have a chat with the smooth-voiced James Hall of RTRfm. He had a question about hyphens. So here’s the clip.
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9 January 2014 at 11:54 am
Pretty funny. After learning Japanese, where they have no respect for spaces between words, I learned that hyphens, spaces and such are mere typographical convention and "length of word" had no other meaning.
I love google ngram to watch the growth of ideas and phrases. For example, "proper grammar" did not really take off until about the 1960s!
27 January 2014 at 2:17 pm
I have a random question, the product of a game of pictionary, an Argentinian accent, and trying to prove my brother wrong. I looked in my dictionary, but could you tell me if there is a phonetic difference between the words 'poll' and 'pole' with an Australian accent?
31 January 2014 at 12:23 am
Great question! I'm going to answer it on the next episode, number 149: Tongue Twisters.
4 February 2014 at 4:59 pm
Thank you for answering my question! Sadly, I lost the bet so if my brother asks about the answer I'm just going to act confused and change the subject.