Nicholas Andresen
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Podcast Appearances
Two matter here.
First, efficiency compresses structure.
Our mouths are lazy.
Our brains are lazy.
Given the choice between pronouncing something carefully and mumbling it, we mumble, especially when the meaning remains clear.
Going to becomes gunner.
Wanted becomes a wanna.
I am going to wanted becomes I'm a wanna, which is an impressive six words compressed into four syllables.
Not bad.
Look at Alfred's sentence.
There appears three different ways.
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Marking.
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Man has the subject.
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Flagging.
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Clear fountain as the object and.
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