2024-11-11
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
And Grant, I need some marital counseling.
I hope you can help me out.
Oh, no. You guys are so cute together.
Well, yes, for the most part we are.
But there's this one thing, this one, I know I'm not supposed to peeve about language,
but there's this one thing that my wife does.
She'll talk about, oh yeah, the flashlight lives on that.
Table over there or the peanut butter lives in that cabinet, you know, where's the peanut butter?
Oh, it's it's in the cabinet where it always lives.
I You're not fond of that verb to lived meaning that's where it stays.
That's where it belongs Yeah, not if it's an inanimate object Are you peeping?
How dare you?
I know we preach against that all the time, but every time she can't help it.
Well, of course, it's good-natured kidding, but I always make the argument it's not alive.
But I don't know.
I mean, of course,
the point here is that you can't break down the English language too far or you'll drive yourself nuts,