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NPR.org: Linguist Geoff Nunberg reflects on the life and language of the late comedian George Carlin, who died last month.
Runs approx 6 minutes
and click here to read the prof's full essay direct from Berkley University
NPR.org: Linguist Geoff Nunberg reflects on the life and language of the late comedian George Carlin, who died last month.
In the 1970s, Carlin observed: "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is: 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad."
Then, famously, he proceeded to say them.
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