117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)

117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)

Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/wxGeXMzlwng

If you repeat something twice, how many times did you do it? Can more than one dinner be "the perfect dinner"? And what does "every other" mean?

We are once again fixing English, in a live episode in which we pile all our friends into a room and vote on vexing semantic questions. These results are binding on English-speakers throughout time and space, because that's how language works. By committee!

Timestamps

  • Cold open: 0:00
  • Intros: 0:55
  • News: 4:12
  • Related or Not: 31:06
  • Fixing English: 47:59
  • Words of the Week: 1:13:44
  • The Reads: 1:34:00
  • Outtakes: 1:42:40

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