The semicolon episode was great.
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The semicolon episode was great.
Hawg, you would probably greatly appreciate the semicolon episode, which is the first episode in season 3. It has much to do with lawyering, grammar interpretation and politics.
Gladwell's semicolon story was a tidy and momentous bath of semiotics and syntax.
I'm listening to his thing about Owen Thomas, and that kind of reminded me of me. For the first three years of college, I couldn't stand to get anything besides a 4.0, was in good position to win a Marshall Scholarship, but my final year I stopped caring and only graduated because the administration figured the 'real AF' would sort me out.
What was weird is that I couldn't really figure out why I didn't care anymore and couldn't bring myself to care.
That new one about concussions was on point.