Podcast: No Stupid Questions
Episode: 171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying? | No Stupid Questions
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
The Giver
Buy on Amazon"Have you ever read The Giver? I just read it last year. Okay, it's probably the book I've read more than any other book."
Words on the Move
Buy on Amazon"There is this linguist, John McWhorter, he wrote a book, Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still, and he talked about the very fact that words just change and dictionaries sort of set in our minds that language is going to be precise forever, and this is just what this word means, or this is how we say it."
The Giver
Buy on Amazon"In the first half of the show, Mike discusses Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel The Giver. He refers to the protagonist as Jona, but the character's name is Jonas!"