Ben on the Radio (UNCLASSIFIED)
Ben Zimmer
bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Jul 6 15:49:04 UTC 2012
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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