📚 2 Books mentioned in "171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying? | No Stupid Questions" of No Stupid Questions
Podcast: No Stupid Questions
Episode: 171. Where Is the Line Between Exaggeration and Lying? | No Stupid Questions
Published on November 13, 2023
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
The Giver
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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.
Angela asks Mike if he's ever read 'The Giver,' a book she has read many times.
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!
In this segment, Mike talks about Lois Lowry's acclaimed novel 'The Giver', noting a mistake he made by incorrectly naming the protagonist Jona instead of Jonas.
Words on the Move
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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.
Mike introduces the book 'Words on the Move', referencing the author John McWhorter, to discuss how language changes over time.