Words are god-like elements that establish the reality all around us.
Join me in this episode to know about:
- When a word has 2 meaning but we only know 1 of them.
- The joy of making words up.
- There's no such thing as unreal words, only unpopular ones.
- Why linguists don't study words.
✨ SHOW NOTES ✨
The Translator - by Nina Schuyler
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16255224
Babycakes - by Neil Gaiman (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cB2fe60Mdk
Words (allegedly) made-up by Shakespeare
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/words-shakespeare-invented/
Sonder - Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/sonder
Vsauce (about words)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb0YoRMXIY0
Morphemes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpheme
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