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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
When Twitter comedian Jonny Sun began to write his book, "everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too," he had to write down the rules of the cutesy grammar of the language he invented.
Released:
Sep 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (27)
When did comedians start saying ‘punching up’ and ‘punching down’?: Theyre not in American dictionaries yet, but the terms, punching up and punching down are on the lips of many comedians. With the help of linguist and journalist Ben Zimmer and British comedian Richard Herring, we trace the migration of these words from by Subtitle