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Oct 10

2h 15m

127: Oh (with Maia Chao, Kelly Wright, a...

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

About this episode

The "Oh" show was an experimental linguistics performance lecture. It happened in June 2025 at Creative Time HQ in New York City. Actors, musicians, and audience came together (with at least one linguist!) to act out dialogues from conversational analysis, and have fun with language. Are there more ways we can perform linguistics? We're talking with artist and linguistics fan Maia Chao.

Timestamps

Cold open: 0:00
Intros: 0:38
News: 7:16
Related or Not: 40:03
Interview with Maia Chao: 55:08
Words of the Week: 1:30:31
Bonus chat with Caitlin Green: groyper: 1:54:40
The Reads: 2:07:48
Outtakes: 2:14:59

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