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by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
102 EPISODES
Nov 9
All Episodes
129: They Started It: Children and Language Evolution (with Madeleine Beekman)
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128: Across the Universe (with Natan Last)
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127: Oh (with Maia Chao, Kelly Wright, and Caitlin Green)
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125: Friends With Words (live with Martha Barnette and friends)
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124: Algospeak (with Adam Aleksic)
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123: Conscious Language (with Karen Yin)
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122: The Interaction Engine (with Stephen Levinson)
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121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg)
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120: Gesture! ✨👐✨ (with Lauren Gawne)
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119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig)
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118: The A.I. Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna)
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117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)
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116: Enough Is Enuf (with Gabe Henry)
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114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard)
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113: "Official" English (with Carmen Fought)
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112: WotY 2024: The Last Word
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111: Words of the Week of the Year 2024 (live with Mignon Fogarty and friends)
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110: Diego's Dossier (with Diego Diaz)
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109: Language Oppression in Tibet (with Gerald Roche and Sasha Wilmoth)
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108: Mailbag of Etymology (with Douglas Harper)
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107: Linguaphile (with Julie Sedivy and Matt Spike)
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106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison)
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105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)
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104: Dogwhistles (with Elin McCready, Lizzy Hanks, Jesse Egbert, and Rikker Dockum)
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103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday)
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102: Signed Language Mailbag (with Adam Schembri, Christy Filipich, and Mark Ellison)
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101: Talkin' Chomsky (with Katie Martin and Abduweli Ayup)
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100: Spicy Mailbag
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99: Gender in Germany (with Rob Tegethoff and Ciarán from Corner Späti)
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98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)
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97: The Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (with Eli Burnstein)
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96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)
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95: Why the Far-Right Demagogues Language (with Caitlin Green and Maureen Kosse)
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94: Mailbag of Sextillion and Three
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93: Stop! Grammar Time (live with Ellen Jovin and friends)
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92: In the First 600 Milliseconds (with Rachel Nordlinger)
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91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory
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90: Enpoopification (with Grant Barrett and Tim Brookes)
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89: Words of the Week of the Year 2023 (with Cory Doctorow and friends)
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88: Linguistic Time Machine, part 1: History
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87: Trans-Inclusive (with Andrew Perfors)
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86: Mailbag of Dog Sushi (with Nicole Holliday)
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85: The Dictionary People (with Sarah Ogilvie)
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84: Diego's Discourse (with Diego Diaz)
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83: You're All Talk (with Rob Drummond and Robbie Love)
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82: Girl Dinner (live with our patrons and friends)
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81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)
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80: Mailbag of TLAs
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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)
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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)
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