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Ergative Zones
Manage episode 394550795 series 3424318
How Padma Lakshmi schooled us all on the "middle voice."
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show Notes:
"It eats salty": middle voice on "Top Chef," Language Log on "stimulus subject perception verbs"
The Grammar of Top Chef: What’s With "It Eats Salty"? Mental Floss on "gestalt verbs"
Kapitel
1. Ergative Zones (00:00:00)
2. The mediopassive (00:00:27)
3. Ergative verbs (00:07:51)
4. ‘Eats Salty’: Padma Lakshmi and food talk (00:13:03)
5. The middle voice and marketing (00:21:21)
6. Make sure it’s intransitive (00:24:05)
7. The Big Three: Change in state, stimulus subject perception, and gestalt (00:26:43)
8. Trends, commercialese, and avoiding blame (00:30:11)
9. The Big Lebowski: ‘The dude abides’ (00:31:55)
10. Endlessly adaptable: When to embrace the middle voice (00:33:51)
11. ‘If it reads strange’ (00:37:24)
35 episoder
Manage episode 394550795 series 3424318
How Padma Lakshmi schooled us all on the "middle voice."
Questions/comments/ideas/snark go in the comments. We love you.
Thing 1: Ryan Davis
Thing 2: Mike Laws
Producer: Amanda Darrach
Find all your favorite Red Pen songs over on the Red Pen Official Playlist.
To use Red Pen chapters, swipe up on the Now Playing screen or click the top-right-corner Chapters button on Apple Podcasts for macOS.
Show Notes:
"It eats salty": middle voice on "Top Chef," Language Log on "stimulus subject perception verbs"
The Grammar of Top Chef: What’s With "It Eats Salty"? Mental Floss on "gestalt verbs"
Kapitel
1. Ergative Zones (00:00:00)
2. The mediopassive (00:00:27)
3. Ergative verbs (00:07:51)
4. ‘Eats Salty’: Padma Lakshmi and food talk (00:13:03)
5. The middle voice and marketing (00:21:21)
6. Make sure it’s intransitive (00:24:05)
7. The Big Three: Change in state, stimulus subject perception, and gestalt (00:26:43)
8. Trends, commercialese, and avoiding blame (00:30:11)
9. The Big Lebowski: ‘The dude abides’ (00:31:55)
10. Endlessly adaptable: When to embrace the middle voice (00:33:51)
11. ‘If it reads strange’ (00:37:24)
35 episoder
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