Susie Dent On the Wonders of the English Language (Part 2)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Leila Ishmael. For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with Susie Dent, the genius of Countdown's Dictionary Corner. She was live on stage at Kilne Theatre in London on the 30th of September 2024. for our Intelligence Squared live event discussing her debut mystery novel, Guilty by Definition.
Now let's rejoin our host, Alex Clark, live on stage in conversation with Susie Dent. One of the things that it seemed to me that you're playing with, and you mentioned that you use the word decoding, is that we you get somewhere with our fascination with code. Our fascin, you know, from enigma to what, you know, it doesn't have to be words. You're primarily interested in words and their meaning.
Yeah. But there is also that whole idea of secret codes and things to which people are not privy. Yes. And that's An incredible part of the power of language.
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