How Using Pliers Improves Your Language. Weird Possessives. Ducky File.

<p>An amazing study shows that tool use and language are connected in the brain and shows how using one can make you better at the other, and vice versa. Plus we look at some tricky possessives. Can you say "a friend of mine's car"?</p><p><strong>Transcript:</strong>  <a href="https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/how-using-pliers-improves-your-language">https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/how-using-pliers-improves-your-language</a></p><p>The tools and language segment is by <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/claudio-brozzoli-1288760">Claudio Brozzoli</a> a researcher at INSERM Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, and the Impact team at the <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/karolinska-institutet-1250">Karolinska Institute</a>, and <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/simon-thibault-1288971">Simon Thibault</a>, a Postdoctoral Researcher at <a href="https://theconversation.com/institutions/universite-claude-bernard-lyon-1-2487">Lyon Neuroscience Research Center</a>. It originally appeared on <a href="https://theconversation.com/">The Conversation</a> and appears here through a Creative Commons license. <a href="https://theconversation.com/tool-use-and-language-skills-are-linked-in-the-brain-and-practising-one-improves-the-other-171464">Read the original</a> (without my interjections).</p><p>| <a href="https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe">Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates</a>.</p><p>| <a href="https://j.mp/3oooKmK">Watch my LinkedIn Learning writing course.</a></p><p>| <a href="https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/grammar-girl-s-peeve-wars">Peeve Wars card game</a>. </p><p>| <a href="https://bit.ly/GrammarPopBooks">Grammar Girl books</a>. </p><p>| HOST: Mignon Fogarty</p><p>| VOICEMAIL: 833-214-GIRL (833-214-4475)</p><p>| Grammar Girl is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.</p><p>| Theme music by Catherine Rannus at <a href="http://beautifulmusic.co.uk/">beautifulmusic.co.uk</a>.</p><p>| Grammar Girl Social Media Links:</p><p><a hre