377: Mailbag of Uncomfortableness
The mail keeps coming, and we keep answering. Is English really a dialect of Chinese? Why do...
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376: Language Hotspots (with Xia Hua)
Talking to mathematical biologist Xia Hua about why some places are more linguistically diverse,...
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375: Community Size Matters (with Limor Raviv)
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374: Polari, Britain's Lost Gay Language (with Paul Baker)
When homosexuality was illegal, a secret language brought people together. In 1960s England,...
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We're opening up the Mailbag for another episode. Are sneezes written the same way everywhere?...
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372: Because Internet (with Gretchen McCulloch)
The rules are changing. Here's the manual. Gretchen McCulloch's book Because Internet is a look...
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371: -nado, -holic, -pocalypse: Combining Forms (Live Q&A)
Take a tornado. Add some sharks. You've got a sharknado. But it's not just sharks that can leap...
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Names are what they are, and as long as they work, they work. But sometimes in the history of...
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How many words are there in all the world’s languages?
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369: The Grammarian Is In (with Ellen Jovin)
Talking to Ellen Jovin, author and proprietor of Grammar Table, where she dispenses face-to-face...
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Poetry isn't (just) enjoyable, it can be useful. It can help us with language learning and...
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367: Your Inner Prescriptivist (with Alyssa Severin)
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365: Difficult Words (with Jane Solomon)
Talking with lexicographer Jane Solomon about her book, The Dictionary of Difficult Words. News:...
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The questions never stop, and neither do we. What's the past tense of yeet, and why is English...
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363: Talking Race (with Jessi Grieser)
What happens to language when newcomers move in? Language isn't just for communication — it also...
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New research on gesture and mind. People handle inference about the same, whether verbal or...
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361: Helping My Language Live - Language Activism (with Margaret Florey)
Imagine watching your language erode away. How would you help it to stay alive? What can one...
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