How do you pronounce rooibos? The name of this tea comes from the Afrikaans words rooi bos, meaning “red bush.” Rooibos is pronounced ROY-boss, but it’s also called bush tea, red tea, or redbush tea. http://waywordradio.org

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Meg in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, gets why the state highway department encourages drivers to use their blinkers when changing lanes, but placing a digital sign at the Sagamore Bridge that reads Use Ya Blinkah is, well, a lexical bridge too far. Meg’s annoyed by the sign, contending that it makes fun of the way locals talk. Rendering speech this way is known as eye dialect, and in the case of these kinds of digital signs, they do get the point across. http://waywordradio.org

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Ophelia in Johnson City, Tennessee, wonders about the exclamation her great-grandmother often used when something surprised her: Cat bristle! That may be her own version of a minced oath, although it fits with the idea of how a cat’s tail might look when its surprised. http://waywordradio.org

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In 1968, students at Cheyenne High School in Cheyenne, Wyoming, compiled a collection of their own slang, including the word Clyde, used to refer to one’s head, as in Use your Clyde! http://waywordradio.org

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Words of wisdom from G.K. Chesterton: The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. http://waywordradio.org

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The word preppy has undergone a considerable evolution since Boomers first used it to describe attire that reflects a conservative, polished, East-coast prep school look. For middle-schoolers today, preppy connotes an entirely different aesthetic: girly clothing that’s frilly, often Barbie-pink or decorated with animal prints. In his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language (Bookshop|Amazon) linguist Adam Aleksic shows the role social media algorithms played in the development of an entirely new sense of the word. http://waywordradio.org

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When does late at night change to early in the morning? 2:30 a.m.? 3:00 a.m.? Another time? http://waywordradio.org

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Besides the Use Ya Blinkah roadside sign seen in Massachusetts, seasonal messages on digital highway signs have included the Halloween-themed Hocus Pocus--Drive with Focus and the Fourth of July admonition Don’t Drive Star-Spangled Hammered. The U.S. federal government now discourages the use of such highway punnery, declaring that they are too distracting and unclear. http://waywordradio.org

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A listener has a suggestion for a word “a state of dread” or “not wanting something to happen,” and that word is unticipation. http://waywordradio.org

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Quiz Guy John Chaneski has been pondering the -ly often found at the of adverbs, and that inspired him to craft a puzzle about  words that seem to be adverbs, but aren’t. For example, what fake adverb is suggested by this clue: Like a sudden charge against an enemy, it does it like actor Mineo or baseballer Bando. http://waywordradio.org

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On Subjectivity and Artificial Intelligence
Vera van der Burg (Contextual Design MA) in conversation with Agata Jaworska and Arif Kornweitz

Vera van der Burg speaks of her educational background in neuroscience, and her struggle in bridging gaps between science and design as they are understood at the department of Contextual Design. What tools, languages, and other tactics enabled her to create a meaningful exchange, and produce a work that would resonate in her department, and speak to a broader audience? Her quest resulted in an installation 'Still Life' that speaks to the core of human-machine differences, based on the binary logic that continues to pin subjectivity opposite to objectivity. Will machines ever be able to emulate a human understanding of things, and is that even desirable?

DAE Design Research Podcast - Vera van den Burg on Subjectivity and Artificial Intelligence

A selection of Bachelor and Master students from Design Academy Eindhoven talk about their final graduation projects. They share the world behind their ideas and talk about their motivation, design-process and the research that led to their work. More info: www.designacademy.nl

DAE Design Research Podcast - Vera van den Burg on Subjectivity and Artificial Intelligence

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