The words you never knew you needed to know, with Susie Dent
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- Susie Dent is a woman to whom history will owe a lot. She is the keeper of our words. 30 years on Countdown as the queen of the dictionary corner has endeared her to millions. She presents a podcast with Gyles Brandreth. And her latest book is all about the words we need to use to describe how we feel. It's a Dictionary of Emotions.
We spoke to her earlier and she told us about how lockdown influenced this new venture...
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Love you Susie
Yep, I'd agree with brilliant !
We all need to expand our vocabularies. As humans, we see and create our world through words. The more words you use the more of your reality you can express.
Glad to know about their podcast, tried an episode and it's fun. I have had a copy of Brandreth's 'The Joy of Lex' for decades, must dig it out and play.
British may not *express* emotion the way some nationalities do but they sure do inspire it in their literature. They have more words that express emotion than anyone else. And they are way more emotional than Russians who act like zombies at times now that we can see them on UA-cam. My mother was British and she had as much emotional expression as anyone else and maybe more than most. (I'm 68 so it was another generation). Perhaps emotion is SHOWN more in those with languages that don't define it as much and for those with smaller vocabularies.
It's an interesting point. As an American retired in France, I have remarked some interesting holes in the French language, such as the lack of a word equivalent to 'home'. I have not yet found an adequate substitute among their suggestions.
If you were wondering Ms Garvey, you didn't get away with it. Beware of unfamiliar words that begin FU.
“Pong Ping” was, I’m sure, a character in Rupert Bear - a Pekingese dog that kept pet Chinese dragons if I recall from 56 years ago!
Susie Dent, of all people, includes within her speech frequent use of ‘you know’ and ‘kind of’. 13:20
Hi Susie what do you call a person that collect's Axes, please.😎
What a cobudlic video. Enough to dopherise even the most flomgous pollytibble.
Utterly dumbfungled
Both of you use "hate" as a noun, when the actual noun is "hatred". I know that's a popular misuse of the verb, but I was surprised to hear that from Dent.