Ben on the Radio (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
<Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
> Anyone else hear Ben Zimmer on NPR yesterday, talking about gambling
> metaphors in the run up to the election?

It was on Marketplace:

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/campaign-trail/president-betting-man

They cut out the part where I talked about the current prevalence of
the "doubling down" metaphor from blackjack.

--bgz

Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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