Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2025

In which LxAD show hosts Eli and Sarah get drunk and answer questions about language, live and unedited. That’s it. That’s the panel.

Jump right to:
0:00 Introduction
2:25 Baby Language Acquisition Update
5:01 Questions
5:40 Question 1
6:17 Question 2
7:24 Question 3: What the heck is Linear B?
20:36 Question 4: What do you do with a drunken linguist?
22:00 Question 5: How did you get into linguistics?
37:52 Question 6: Which forms of the word "beware" exist?
44:43 Question 7
44:57 Question 8: Wizards with dyslexia; discuss
52:44 Question 9: What is your favourite tongue twister and why?
56:33 Lore Drop: l'Académie
1:04:29 Question 10
1:06:17 Question 11: What is the worst pun you know in any language you know?
1:06:59 Quiz
1:09:27 Quiz Question I
1:10:50 Quiz Question II
1:14:24 Quiz Question III
1:16:50 Quiz Question IV
1:19:25 Quiz Question V
1:23:58 Question 12: Where can I find the podcast?
1:24:57 Gum Tasting
1:33:23 Question 13: Can you explain Roman naming systems?
1:46:47 Question 13b
1:48:10 Question 14: Negative Polarity?
2:01:54 Question 14b: Is Riker Nerd-Sniping Himself?
2:12:57 Question 14c: What's a desire path?
2:17:52 Question 15: Book Question
2:23:52 Question 16: When word meanings change
2:31:31 Not A Question: Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people.
2:33:49 Question 17: The Lone Power's Name
2:41:43 Question 18: How many words is "58 Queen Charlotte Street, 12:00"?
2:42:33 Question 19: English promiscuity
2:52:08 Endnotes

Mentioned in this panel:

• Diane Duane's ebook store

• Cat's First Baby

• The Riddle of the Labyrinth

• Hellspark

• Fine Prey

• Babel

• Lexicon

• Native Tongue

• Embassytown

• Too Many Daves

• Alice Kober

• Michael Ventris

• John Chadwick

• Jean Berko Gleason

• Thrills gum ("it still tastes like soap!")

• Heaven's Vault

• Useful Charts writing systems of the world & alphabet posters

• Sarah’s Linguistics of the Speech (2nd Edition Revised)

• Jenny's History of Elvish talk

• The 2022 panel where swords were issued

Ask us questions:

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Credits:

Linguistics After Dark is produced by Emfozzing Enterprises. Editing for this episode was done by Bex, show notes are done by Jenny, and transcriptions are done by Luca. Our music is "Covert Affair" by Kevin MacLeod. Join us here!

And until next time… if you weren’t consciously aware of your tongue in your mouth, now you are :)