@becauselanguage.com
A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod
Final hours for this Kickstarter! Tim is creating beautiful works of art, and presenting them as words of encouragement for communities that use endangered scripts. Check it out and support.
I really want to believe that he asked "the what?" reflexively
as a treat
#WordOfTheWeek
frustration tolerance
#WordOfTheWeek
Seriously it’s this kind of complacency
Get tested, everyone
that YOU know of
Need some help spelling the word BUREAU?
It's easier than you think, but it's going to take a gross mnemonic. And Daniel's got one.
Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...
For editors, on National Grammar Day.
On Grammar Day, they get aggressive:
Of their pronouns and nouns they're possessive,
Their subjunctives are hot
(Though we wish they were not),
And their verbs, like themselves, are progressive.
#alimerickaday
I feel complicit because I sold the dog food
Classic
A sticker on a laptop. It says “BECASUE LANGAUGE” and there are red squiggles under the two misspelled words
I can’t even get this right on our promo stuff 😭
Sticker: "Lingusitics is the science of langauge." Red squiggles appear under the two misspelled words
And as we all know…
ai/dr
#WordOfTheWeek
Language helps with information transfer, and that includes a lot of information about ourselves.
With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny".
Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...
The US Southern accent is becoming a marker of ideology. With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny".
Full episode:
becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...
Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba
Sounds amazing. Reznor does have a legitimate foothold on “Americans”. He’s in the video, chasing Bowie down the street.
Also, this is your weekly reminder that Trent Reznor backwards is Ron Zertnert
New Cambridge Element, Aviation English as a Global Lingua Franca, by Hyejeong Kim, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
https://cup.org/4aJ494I
#LangSky
How did the kids feel about 6-7 at the #WotY2025 vote? Kelly Wright is the data czar for @americandialect.org, and she tells us all about it.
Whole episode: becauselanguage.com/132-woty-202...
Listener Flo tells us about "weeaboo", an enthusiast for Japanese culture.
But what about someone who's into French stuff?
With Kelly Wright!
Whole episode: becauselanguage.com/132-woty-202...
Good vowel dumper
Unexpected antifa
Time for the worst #WotY2025.
Words are a proxy for the communities that use them, so who do they hate this year? Let's see.
African-Americans, as always.
Business types, yes.
Oo, children! That's new.
Also Australian and British English speakers catching strays.
www.lssu.edu/resources/ab...
Fun discovery!
See, I’m gonna disagree on Chomsky’s linguistics. He had some cool ideas that didn’t pan out, but in defending those ideas he dragged linguistics into unproductive intradisciplinary battles that lasted decades. We could have done so much better than Chomsky.
This is right
We did a whole episode together on him! And now it’s all fucking with my lesson plan (the tiniest of the problems from this, of course).
What’s our consensus on deleting the Chomsky? Into the bin forever? Teach but call out?
Trust issues with everyone forever
is my takeaway
Today is the first day of #Hawaiian #Language Month
dod.hawaii.gov/hiema/news-r...
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