105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)

105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)

For our 500th episode, we got together with our great listeners for their words, stories, and inspiration. It's a look back at the show, a look at language from our friends' point of view, and a celebration of our great community. Dr Kelly Wright joins us.

Big thanks to our friends who joined us, and to everyone who's listened over the years.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Xc0S_O4KrhY

Timestamps

Cold open: 0:00
Intros: 1:17
News: 9:19
PharaohKatt tells us about Speech Pathology Week 2024: 27:00
Related or Not (with polls!): 40:23
Words of the Week: 56:52
Self-indulgent twaddle about the show and thank yous: 1:23:16
The Reads: 1:30:50
Outtake: 1:35:24

Episoder(100)

70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

70: Free Speech, But… (with Dennis Baron)

We all have freedom of expression, but what are its limits — social and legal? And how have governments tried to curtail it? We’re talking through the implications of free speech with Dennis Baron. He’s the author of You Can’t Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech.

16 Feb 20231h 42min

69: Mailbagussy

69: Mailbagussy

The American Dialect Society Word of the Year has been chosen — and it’s a wonderful and terrible pick! Depending on who you’re talking to. In this episode, we’re talking about -USSY and all the words. And we’re getting to our Mailbag, with our most intriguing research project ever: can you spot the pattern in the way Ben pronounces EITHER and NEITHER? Is there one?

27 Jan 20231h 36min

68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

68: Lazy in a Good Way (with Mark Ellison)

In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Why aren't we more efficient with language? How do we know when something has gone wrong in a conversation? Why don't we just talk in a flat monotone all the time? Why do fairy tales start a certain way? Why is it so tiring to speak another language? Fortunately, he helps us keep our eyes on the ball for this episode.

3 Jan 20231h 22min

67: Words of the Week of the Year 2022 (live with friends)

67: Words of the Week of the Year 2022 (live with friends)

We're counting down our Words of the Year, as voted by you! We're joined by our friends and patrons, and they've brought us some words we missed. And we'll go through all the Words of the Year from dictionaries and language lovers, English and not. Thanks to all our friends who joined us for this show, and to all our great patrons who have supported our work. Video here: https://youtu.be/z1BmUixVNlY

20 Des 20221h 44min

66: ChatGPT Wrote This Episode (with Daan van Esch)

66: ChatGPT Wrote This Episode (with Daan van Esch)

ChatGPT has just landed. It can generate text that seems fluid, plausible, and (surprisingly) not total nonsense. It's got a lot of people wondering what's left for humans — and for the field of Natural Language Processing. Here to help us is computational linguist Daan van Esch.

13 Des 20221h 26min

65: Naval Manoeuvres (with Chase Dalton)

65: Naval Manoeuvres (with Chase Dalton)

Many expressions we use come from the nautical domain. But are they nautical? Are they really? We’ve got Chase Dalton from the US Naval History Podcast to shine a light on some of these expressions, and in some cases reveal the secret nautical origins of words we use every day. US Naval History Podcast on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts

7 Des 20221h 27min

64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)

64: Struggle Pile (with Kelly Wright)

A chat with Dr Kelly Wright, who’s been working on… well, really a lot. Kelly is at the juncture of a lot of areas we’re keen on. Oxford’s effort to document African-American English? She’s been there. Doing lexicography with the American Dialect Society? She’s on it. The LSA’s social media committee? She… was on it. And she’s been looking into a new unexplored area: people’s ideas about their own language knowledge. But it’s not all easy. And Kelly is here to tell us about her view of linguistics… from the struggle pile.

20 Nov 20221h 56min

63: Mailbag of Yeah-No (with Isabelle Burke)

63: Mailbag of Yeah-No (with Isabelle Burke)

Just two words, but they do so much. But what exactly? Here to answer that question is Dr Isabelle Burke, who has studied yeah-no in depth. She’s also going to help us with these Mailbag questions. Why is LIKE so resilient? Why can we say “I very much enjoy…” but not “I much enjoy…” or “I very enjoy…”? When is a loanword not a loanword? Do word processors have a problem with singular THEY? Why doesn’t English have diacritics?

3 Nov 20221h 27min

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