Episode 201: Words and Words

The tool each of us uses most often – language – presents an interesting contradiction. To communicate ideas clearly and efficiently, words must have meanings. Yet, because language is an emergent phenomenon, words and words’ meanings change. This has important implications for everything from how we interact with each other on a daily basis to what rights the Constitution claims to protect.

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Quick HitsPresidential Restraint

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/politics/joe-biden-audio-civil-rights-leaders/index.html

Should Biden Pardon Trump?

https://theconstitutionalist.org/2020/12/13/joe-biden-should-pardon-donald-trump/

Foolishness of the Week

MAGA Protesters

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/protesters-chant-destroy-the-gop-at-pro-trump-rally-1102967/

Topic of the Weekhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregardless

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_québécois_de_la_langue_française

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392586/Oxford-English-Dictionary-admits-used-wrong-sense-word-literally.html

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