117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)

117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25)

Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/wxGeXMzlwng

If you repeat something twice, how many times did you do it? Can more than one dinner be "the perfect dinner"? And what does "every other" mean?

We are once again fixing English, in a live episode in which we pile all our friends into a room and vote on vexing semantic questions. These results are binding on English-speakers throughout time and space, because that's how language works. By committee!

Timestamps

  • Cold open: 0:00
  • Intros: 0:55
  • News: 4:12
  • Related or Not: 31:06
  • Fixing English: 47:59
  • Words of the Week: 1:13:44
  • The Reads: 1:34:00
  • Outtakes: 1:42:40

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82: Girl Dinner (live with our patrons and friends)

82: Girl Dinner (live with our patrons and friends)

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81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)

81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)

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80: Mailbag of TLAs

80: Mailbag of TLAs

Listeners have once again sent us some great questions, and we have answers! Why do we TALK SHIT and not SPEAK SHIT? Do we KEEP OUT, or STAY OUT? Why are so many acronyms three letters long? How do w...

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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)

78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)

For decades, forensic linguists have been pushing back on harmful language ideologies, and fighting for better representation for linguistic minorities in the legal domain. We're talking to three lege...

29 Kesä 20232h 39min

77: Big Tent (live with Aris Clemons, Caitlin Green, Rikker Dockum, and friends)

77: Big Tent (live with Aris Clemons, Caitlin Green, Rikker Dockum, and friends)

How do we make the discipline of linguistics — and our world — a more just, diverse, and equitable place? Why does our personal history and personal perspective matter when doing science? How do we bu...

15 Kesä 20231h 50min

76: Ooo! Yum! Uh… (with Emily Hofstetter, Eleonora Beier, and Russell Gray)

76: Ooo! Yum! Uh… (with Emily Hofstetter, Eleonora Beier, and Russell Gray)

Why does everyone say OOO! when they see someone fall down? Why do we say YUM when we feed a baby? And what's the deal with fillers like UM? For this episode we're talking about non-lexical vocalisati...

27 Touko 20232h 26min

75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)

75: Fake News (with Jack Grieve)

How can you tell if a news story is intended to deceive? In one well-known case of journalistic deception, there were tells that required machine learning to trace. We're talking to author and computa...

15 Touko 20231h 44min

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