Episode 18: Can't Say "Teeth" Without Teeth

Wherein we are not professionals. Jump right to: 4:44 Language Thing of the Day: The short scale vs the long scale 21:38 Question 1: Why do we use 'on' to refer to spiders being 'on' ceilings? To me the spiders aren't on top of the ceiling, they're under. All the languages I know use a very similar preposition to 'on' in English, so I'd like to know if any other languages use a different…