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How do credit default swaps work? | April 30, 2009
Chuck Bryant
Right and when it comes down to it, the name of this show is not grammar you should know, and we are always the first ones to say we’re not perfect. So lay off.
Josh Clark
A matter of fact, Keith, go ahead and send us your address because we’re going to send you a t-shirt, my man. That was cool. Thanks for coming to the rescue.
Chuck Bryant
Yeah, Keith. Shirt size and address, and we’ll thank you for having our backs on this.
Josh Clark
Right on. So if you want to have our backs, if you want to take us to task, if you’re a grammar Nazi or a – whatever. How about we re-record that part? Ready? So if you want to have our backs, or if you want to take us to task like the grammar Nazis that rode in, just go ahead and send us an e-mail to StuffPodcast@HowStuffWorks.com.
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Josh Clark
Awesome, Keith.
Chuck Bryant
And he did actually send a link. I’m not going to bore you, either, but there was a book by Steven Pinker called The Language Instinct, and I mean he sent me a whole page where the guy basically breaks it down. And in the end, I’ll just read the one sentence -
Josh Clark
Steven Pinker. Really?
Chuck Bryant
Yeah. Do you know him?
Josh Clark
I just heard of him last night for the first time.
Chuck Bryant
Really?
Josh Clark
Yeah, that’s odd.
Chuck Bryant
So the last sentence of his thing says, “By the logic of grammar, the pronoun is free to have any case it wants.”
ass=”transcript-comment”>Josh Clark
I agree. I think the point of communication is to get your idea across to somebody, and I think interchanging I or me still gets the point across. I think if you can get your point across with grunts and hand gestures, that’s proper communication.