Lingthusiasm
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A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by @GretchenAMcC and @superlinguo. 'Joyously nerdy' -Buzzfeed. https://t.co/9TqMQGL1bt
Joined June 2016
How are we still making discoveries about the 5000-year-old ancestor to English, Latin, Czech, Hindi and many other languages? In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about figuring out Proto-Indo-European with @DannyBate4! https://t.co/j4jzRux2l6
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Day 6 of #ThatsMyJam! Apricot & Lavender, with Translating the untranslatable You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how we translate different kinds of meaning here: https://t.co/jaoieOLjNH
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Most holiday stress isn’t real — it’s fear wearing tinsel. The Fear Season How to Resimplify What You Imagine Article link in comments...
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Day 5 of #ThatsMyJam! Apple, Caramel & Cinnamon, with Word Magic You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how the word magic systems are set up differently in three recent fantasy books we like here: https://t.co/5M7UYCYz2W
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Day 4 of #ThatsMyJam! Cherry & Violet, with Colour words around the world and inside your brain You can listen to us get enthusiastic about what linguistic typology and psycholinguistics can tell us about colour words here: https://t.co/f4OuHF9rlx
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Missed our previous bonus episode? Get access to this bonus where we get enthusiastic about celebratory days, years, decades, and more with some relationship to linguistics and over 100 previous bonus episodes by becoming a patron: https://t.co/hSryUvSHDb
Are you doing anything for World Linguistics Day on Nov 26th? In our latest bonus episode, we get enthusiastic about linguistics-related celebrations, from International Mother Tongue Day to Talk Like A Pirate Day https://t.co/KuYyBQoA0T
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A book containing puzzling drawings and a strange writing system has intrigued cryptographers, historians, linguists, and more for centuries... In our latest bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the mysterious Voynich Manuscript with Dr Claire Bowern! https://t.co/VeIjqR570p
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Day 3 of #ThatsMyJam! Plum, Peach, & Anise, with Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages You can listen to us get enthusiastic about borrowing and loanwords here: https://t.co/s7J5yhLFy5
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Day 2 of #ThatsMyJam! Fig & Cardamom, with Why do we gesture when we talk? You can watch us get enthusiastic about gesture here: https://t.co/vtXwmDgjgX And listen here: https://t.co/kJjEUoGXuj
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Day 1 of #ThatsMyJam! Blueberry & Maple Syrup, with Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the relationship between the different varieties of English here: https://t.co/xAKbUHBtI7
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To learn more about linguistics-related days, years, and even decades, check out our latest Patreon bonus episode: https://t.co/KuYyBQoA0T
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Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!
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@DannyBate4 You can read the transcript for 'The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate' here: https://t.co/9qHJ4tN4p9
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This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate. It’s been lightly edited for readability. Listen to the episode here or...
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@DannyBate4 Missed the previous episode? Check out our episode about the nose and its impact on language here: https://t.co/YdoFPgIKLu
Sounds come out of them, signs are located at them, and they're fodder for many picturesque metaphors In this episode we get enthusiastic about the NOSE! https://t.co/5Sh3m3UtI6
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@DannyBate4 This month's bonus episode is about celebratory days, years, decades, and more with some relationship to linguistics! Help us keep the show running and get access to over 100 bonus episodes by becoming a patron: https://t.co/hSryUvSHDb
Are you doing anything for World Linguistics Day on Nov 26th? In our latest bonus episode, we get enthusiastic about linguistics-related celebrations, from International Mother Tongue Day to Talk Like A Pirate Day https://t.co/KuYyBQoA0T
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@DannyBate4 You can find more links to lots of things mentioned in this episode on the shownotes page: https://t.co/Mwld1B0oLl
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Missed our previous bonus episode? Get access to this bonus where we get enthusiastic about our favourite words ending in nym and over 100 previous bonus episodes by becoming a patron: https://t.co/XlGZFo6DhD
You may have learned about synonyms & homonyms in school. But do you know about contronyms, hypernyms, eponyms, backronyms, retronyms, demonyms, razzonyms, phantonyms... In our latests bonus ep we get enthusiastic about our favourite words ending in nym! https://t.co/L9Hy9CD722
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Are you doing anything for World Linguistics Day on Nov 26th? In our latest bonus episode, we get enthusiastic about linguistics-related celebrations, from International Mother Tongue Day to Talk Like A Pirate Day https://t.co/KuYyBQoA0T
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We've also made a new greeting card design that says {Merry/marry/Mary} Holidays! Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation https://t.co/pJN3dm98I0
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Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation.
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People have responded super enthusiastically to the jazzed up version of our logo! So we’ve now made this design available on some very cute merch: https://t.co/LIF39iw6vO
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We’ve made a special jazzed-up version of the Lingthusiasm logo featuring fun little drawings from the first 100 episodes of enthusiasm about linguistics! There’s a leaping Gavagai rabbit, bouba and...
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You can read the transcript for 'On the nose - How the nose shapes language' here: https://t.co/bxoTvr4DDT
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This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘On the nose - How the nose shapes language’. It’s been lightly edited for readability. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts....
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