How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together…
Anacostia is a rapidly gentrifying suburb in Washington DC, and as Anacostia changes, so does the language. How do the original Black residents use language…
You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But why do we include media…
Linguistics as a discipline throws up challenges to Indigenous linguists. At the same time, they’re the ones called upon to fix it. It can’t stay…
OzCLO is the Australian Computational and Linguistic Olympiad. It gets students together to compete and solve linguistic problems. It’s also a gateway to further linguistic…
Words of the Week are coming out of the woodwork, and who better to work through them with us than Grant Barrett of A Way…
It joins, it divides. It’s disappearing in some places, but it’s stronger than ever in others. For this episode, we’re talking to Professor Pardis Mahdavi,…
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There’s a new show on Netflix, and it’s The History of Swearing, featuring Nicolas Cage. Backing him up is a team of researchers, comedians — and…
On this momentous episode, we look back on all the words that made our year. Like, all of them. Including some from other languages. Many…