The Two Vague Podcast
The Two Vague Podcast
Ben Cheknis
Episode 116 - Ellipsis
59 minutes Posted Aug 13, 2024 at 7:52 am.
Unrefrigerated, getting a Whirlpool, Kevin Meaney, and no refrigerator magnets?!00:02:56 - Ben throws some crazy, cabinet positions, still a general, and getting over… again00:04:53 - Birthday time travel, trust the process, meeting on Threads, and Judy Blume books00:08:04 - Best social media wingman, and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai…” references00:10:00 - Ben wants to compare arcade attendant notes with streamer AdventurerJessica 00:11:47 - Visual migraines, multifactorial, “the matchy color fun game,” and accomplishment00:14:16 - Breaking up chapters, text message teaser, a very wordy hybrid, and linguistics00:16:45 - Greek origins, graphs, two dollar words in 1800s, and the MLA format for writing00:20:00 - Andrew thinks it’s judgmental, prescriptive versus descriptive grammar, and ain’t 00:22:31 - Interesting trends in language development, dialect coaches, and Ohio is derpy 00:24:51 - Generation Alpha’s meme inspired phrases, Florida man, and ellipsis use in texting 00:28:03 - Unspoken anger, punctuation usage confusion, the Mongolian ellipsis, and math00:30:52 - Folding, nobody else cares, picking up styles, and guides for technical writing00:35:10 - Vocabulary words of the episode: aposiopesis, cæsura, and “elision or deletion”00:37:40 - Andrew goes off on Shakespeare, the days of Solid Snake, and fancy Breakout 00:39:46 - “Goddess of Victory: Nikke” conversations, and Zero Wing’s bad translations00:42:07 - Pac-Man eating punctuation, more frequent in Japanese media, and pauses00:44:12 - Widening the gap, interpreting the worst, and problems deciphering body language00:48:29 - Andrew hopes he’s getting paid, the movie rights, and Ben Mezrich’s strategy00:50:32 - Who would play you in a movie about your life, and does the face include ears? 00:52:34 - Tenet, Andrew’s nemesis, Inception, and Ben threatens to buy Andrew a BluRay   00:54:10 - Final thoughts, to confuse and annoy, that’s it, and a hero named “The Ellipsis”
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Andrew joins Ben this week to talk about a particular piece of punctuation that isn’t a dinkus!  People have strong opinions about when and where the ellipsis should and shouldn’t be used, so our hosts decided to investigate… for SCIENCE!  Along the way they discovered a number of new words to share (including dinkus)!  Fortunately there won’t be a vocabulary quiz at the end of the show, but there will be an exploration of the use of the ellipsis in the text and dialog of comics, manga, and video games.  Finally, they close the show with a couple of odd questions from Ben and some of their soon to be famous tangential discussion nonsense.
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