7: Wait, what did you say? Part I
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10/31/21 • 18 min
Today’s episode is about language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. Features:
- Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve already said the wrong one
- Demonstrating how irony works to your secondary school students by living ironically
- A rendezvous with a supermarket checkout machine
- A starfish and a universal theory of humour
- Quaint things your five-year-old daughter says after listening to a lot of Enid Blyton books
Today’s episode is about language and working out what things mean – generally by saying the wrong things first, and then looking back on them to either laugh or cringe. Features:
- Blurts and faux pas – when you don’t know what the right thing to say is until you’ve already said the wrong one
- Demonstrating how irony works to your secondary school students by living ironically
- A rendezvous with a supermarket checkout machine
- A starfish and a universal theory of humour
- Quaint things your five-year-old daughter says after listening to a lot of Enid Blyton books
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6: Hitches
Today’s episode is about hitchhiking, and that choice you have to make when someone pulls over to give you a ride: Should I trust this person? Listen to four tales where this was a difficult question to answer. Note: Contains R-rated language and themes. Features:
- A paranoid fellow wielding a machete and asking where I live
- Looking for love in the wrong places, by a driver obsessed with porn and a shade removed from reality
- Incredibly inappropriate humour during a high-speed dash through Hamilton, New Zealand
- Throwing caution to the wind in Japan in the pursuit of maximum freedom, but then hopping in a car with a guy claiming “gun”
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8: Wait, what did you say? Part II
Today’s episode is the second part of a two-part series on language, looking at phrases we use all the time, but which on closer examination are a bit weird, misleading or funny. Features:
- Bears, hares and wondering where – notes on the hilarious linguistic laziness of Kiwi English
- Stars, lasers and taxi cabs – the glorious (and mixed) metaphors of workplace language
- An examination of idioms and phrases I never quite understood as a kid – and still don’t, really
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