304: Genericide (live at Camp Doogs)
Some big corporations are paying big money to make sure you don't use their names. Usually they...
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303: Creoles 2 (featuring John McWhorter, Knut Olawsky, & Ji-Soo Kweon)
We're continuing our discussion of a controversial paper about how new languages get started....
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302: Creoles 1 (featuring Damian Blasi)
How do creole languages arise? A controversial new paper is rocking the linguistic world. Are...
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We're taking your questions on this episode. What's happening with tildes and Facebook? Can you...
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Does grammar matter? On one side: the language sticklers, who hold that good grammar is a...
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299: Men Splain Things to Me (featuring Lara B. Sharp)
Do you get mansplained? Many women will know the pain of the 'splain, but few have documented an...
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298: West African Pidgin English
We're listening to West African Pidgin English. Millions of people speak it, but now it's getting...
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297: Let's Hear It for the Speechies (featuring Jamaica Grantis)
Happy Speech Pathology Week! When we think of speech pathology, we might think of speaking...
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296: Geophonetics, Round 3 (featuring Caleb Everett)
What's the relationship between climate and sound? A linguist has released a trio of papers...
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295: Yawuru (featuring Dalisa Pigram) [live at the Disrupted Festival]
The Talk the Talk team takes the stage in a special live episode. The Yawuru language of Western...
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294: Trademarks and Slurs (featuring Simon Tam)
Freedom of expression is again in the news. Simon Tam has won his case before the US Supreme...
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293: A Computer Walks into a Bar
What kind of jokes would computers write? Humour is a very human thing to do, but can computers...
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We love taking questions, and for this episode, we've got a lot of them. What's behind the things...
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It's not just about the covfefe. This week, we are buried under an avalanche of words, and we're...
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290: Language Does Not Determine Your Thoughts (Whorfianism 1)
Does language influence the way we think? Many people have thought so. And this thought has...
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289: What Helps Babies Learn Language?
Is there anything you can do to help babies learn language? Babies do a great job of learning...
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English used to look a lot different. We used to use a lot of letters that no longer exist. They...
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What exactly is a sandwich? The question is tearing the internet apart. Is a hot dog a sandwich?...
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286: Lexical Appropriation (featuring Nicole Holliday)
Are some words off-limits? Many of us are aware of cultural appropriation: using symbols and...
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For this episode, we put out the call to listeners, and they responded. Daniel's taking questions...
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