Can you take a hint?

February 16, 2011 § 3 Comments

Harvard linguist/cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explains the nature of innuendo. In illustrations. With examples from Fargo and When Harry met Sally.

Warning: it’s 10 min long and not for the faint of complex conceptual models. But it sure is good.

via open culture

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