Lane is the language columnist and an editor at The Economist. Today we discussed a few of his latest contributions, which are both topical and relevant: 1) why papers should print racist language when it occurs in the news, 2) The “racialization” of words like “thug” and “urban” and on the lighter side, 3) how to come up with a good portmanteau word (apropos of all the new corona slang)

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