How Using Pliers Improves Your Language. Weird Possessives. Ducky File.
Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.5 Aug 2022

How Using Pliers Improves Your Language. Weird Possessives. Ducky File.

887. An amazing study shows that tool use and language are connected in the brain and shows how using one can make you better at the other, and vice versa. Plus we look at some tricky possessives. Can you say "a friend of mine's car"?

Transcript: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/how-using-pliers-improves-your-language

The tools and language segment is by Claudio Brozzoli a researcher at INSERM Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, and the Impact team at the Karolinska Institute, and Simon Thibault, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center. It originally appeared on The Conversation and appears here through a Creative Commons license. Read the original (without my interjections).

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