The Language of Less Than Three (rebroadcast) - 9 Aug. 2010

<p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">[This episode first aired February 13, 2010.]</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">Whoever wrote "The Book of Love" neglected to include the handy emoticon <3, which looks like a heart if you turn your head sideways. Grant and Martha talk about how that bit of affectionate shorthand can function as a verb, and about the antiquated words for kiss, "osculate" and "exosculate."</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">A Houston woman says her family makes fun of her for saying "waste not, want not." Does this proverb make literal sense?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">BTDubs, a San Diego caller notices that more of her co-workers are "talking in text," saying things like "BRB" instead of "be right back" or "JK" instead of "just kidding!" Is it a passing fad, or a new way of speaking?</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah... MmmmmWAH! Martha shares the "German verb that means to plant one last kiss" in a series of them.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a fill-in-the-blank limerick puzzle, including:</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 13.0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px 'Lucida Grande';">There was