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The hidden logic of "lowkey." Plus, where did all those terms of venery come from? A flamboyance of flamingos? Visit Lexicon Valley. A Booksmart Studios Production. Episode 299: "The Lowdown on Lowkey." With John McWhorter. Edited and produced by Mike Vuolo. Produced by Livia Bloom Ingram. All rights reserved.
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he low-key needs to try some new shoes, yo, I'm saying, is the same thing as bapfanbiketsebo, same thing, but it's only the same thing when you go into language that actually does what language naturally does.
“And so if you're thinking that ca means roughly being at something, well then after a while, you might think that it means being at doing something. And so I'm at eating.”
“The k is the mouth And the t is the biting And so you're saying I bit it with my mouth”
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