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Caption: Parrot in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain., Credit: Licensed from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en and taken by http://www.flickr.com/photos/sd-6/797697780/ Manuel Marín.

This piece belongs to the series "A Way with Words"

Produced by Grant Barrett, Stefanie Levine, and Martha Barnette

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Summary: Twittering, tweeting, twirting– it's rare to see a whole new body of language appear right before your eyes. But that's what's happening with Twitter. Grant and Martha discuss the snappy new shorthand of the twitterati. Also, why do people feel compelled to say "Polly wanna cracker?" whenever they see a parrot? And is it ever okay to end a sentence with a preposition?
 

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Christopher Moyer

Posted on July 01, 2009 at 01:22 PM | Permalink

Fun show for language lovers

My wife and I like your show very much. It is irreverent and light-hearted without being devolving into silliness. It is educational, too.