What was language like a year ago? Ten years ago? A hundred? What about before that? We’re climbing into the Linguistic Time Machine and finding…
Listeners have once again sent us some great questions, and we have answers! Plus our favourite game, Related or Not! Listen to this episode Download…
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…
Language isn’t just for communication — it’s fun. For over a hundred years, crosswords have served as entertainment, and even been blamed for society’s ills.…
Every Linguistics 101 student knows about HP Grice and his famous Maxims. They state that dialogue is usually cooperative — and when it doesn’t appear…
Can dictionaries create a more fair world? One language observer sees that dictionaries, far from being a neutral chronicle of language, are capable of promoting…
The Words of the Year are out! And we’re talking about ’em. We’re answering all the questions in our voluminous Mailbag. And Hedvig springs a…
Dialect is a role-playing game about language and how it dies. Over the course of a game, players form an isolated community, create a private…
If you love language, and you also love role-playing games with a sci-fi flair, then you’re going to want to check out the new game…
OzCLO is the Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad, where Australian high school students compete with others around the world by solving language puzzles. This week,…