27 min listen
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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 (26)
Why some words are just funny: Why do so many of us laugh at a word like poop but not at, say, treadmill? Is it all down to their meaning? Or are we also responding to the sound of these words? Psycholinguist Chris Westbury set out to discover the answer. Assisted by an inventive comp by Subtitle