106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison)
About this episode
What one thing explains the most about language?
Here to answer that question is linguist and friend of the pod Dr Mark Ellison — and many of our listeners and friends. It's one of our Deck Chats! Grab a coffee and follow along.
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- Cold open: 0:00
- Intros: 0:31
- Mark's work: 1:51
- Listener responses: 9:07
- Daniel's answer: 43:34
- Mark's answer: 1:03:45
- Wrap up: 1:17:17
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