![]() a good language gene, which I inherited and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her."Ĭarlin's interest has led to a lot of his best-known comic routines, from breathtaking lists of colorful phrases to his comparisons of baseball and football and good and bad drivers, and - of course - the much-added-to inventory of "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television."īut underneath those laughs is a serious survey of how language can be finessed or bent to hide uncomfortable realities - something Carlin has no trouble in pointing out, often in terms that would embarrass a longshoreman. "I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably," Carlin says in an interview at CNN Center. Anyone who's watched the comedian over the years knows his fascination with words, his study of the manipulation of language and his keen-eyed powers of observation. ![]() ![]() ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) - Professor George Carlin? ![]()
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