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Popular Words Invented by Authors
Season 1
Episode 5
Authors often create words just for a one-time usage... but a special few will gain traction and become full-fledged parts of our shared lexicon!
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11:26
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6:59
We'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...
8:00
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It's one of the most contentious debates in linguistics!
7:05
The ways we use negation in language can be pretty complex, even AI can’t seem to make sense of it.
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