Mining Graffiti for Slang
A conversation with lexicographer Ben Zimmer. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc...
30 Maj 201731min
Don't Tell Me Reune Is Not a Word
On the near-futile impulse to determine what is, and what is not, a word. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad cho...
16 Maj 201730min
The Language of Female Friendships
A conversation with linguist Deborah Tannen. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
2 Maj 201735min
The Euphemism Treadmill
Why euphemisms tend not to stick around very long. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
18 Apr 201728min
Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
A conversation with linguist Neal Whitman. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...
4 Apr 201730min
How Did Americans Talk a Hundred Years Ago?
John McWhorter time travels to 1930 to eavesdrop on American English. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices...
21 Mars 201732min
Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?
A conversation with sociolinguist Alexandra D’Arcy X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...
7 Feb 201735min
What Had Happened Was Storytelling
John McWhorter discusses his new book, Talking Back, Talking Black. X: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyWebsite: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley Learn more about your ad choices. ...
24 Jan 201733min
