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FLOW | For the Love Of Words

FLOW | For the Love Of Words

By: Danny Ballan
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A tri-weekly exploration of the beauty, history, and power of language. Join Danny Ballan to uncover the origins of idioms, the evolution of vocabulary, and the stories hidden within the words we use every day to make sense of the world.Copyright 2026 Danny Ballan Art Language Learning Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • L'esprit d'escalier | The Staircase Always Wins

    L'esprit d'escalier | The Staircase Always Wins
    28 Oct 2026

    A French philosopher was humiliated at a dinner party in 1773 and gave us the phrase for it. But the psychology underneath is not what you'd expect: you weren't slow in that room. You were paying a tax. Let's find out what for.
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    8 min
  • Weather the Storm | How to Wear a Storm

    Weather the Storm | How to Wear a Storm
    26 Oct 2026

    We say it to each other in the hardest seasons: just weather the storm. But have you ever noticed what a strange promise that is? It doesn't ask you to win. It doesn't ask you to be strong. It asks you to stay. In this episode, we slow down and listen to a word that survives everything it endures — and learn why the most weathered things are also the most beautiful.
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    8 min
  • BIG FLOW | The Anatomy of Missing Someone

    BIG FLOW | The Anatomy of Missing Someone
    24 Oct 2026

    In English, you miss someone the way an arrow misses its target. In French, they are missing from you, like a part of your own body. In Spanish, the count of the room keeps coming up short. In Arabic, the whole world turns into a wilderness. Four languages, one ache, and four completely different maps of where it hurts.

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    26 min
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