Interview on the WBUR show “Here and Now” about the language of “Mad Men.”
The Emmy Award-winning show, “Mad Men,” returns to AMC Sunday night. The show strives to perfectly capture the look, feel and attitudes of the 1960’s through the lives of executives at a Madison Avenue advertising agency. But strive as they may, the writers sometimes fall short when trying to get the language just right. Ben Zimmer, “On Language” columnist for the Sunday New York Times magazine looks at the linguistics of the series to see what expressions belong to the 60’s and which ones were born in, like, other decades. Watch Ben Zimmer’s compilation of Mad Men Anachronisms below.