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From the episode where we get enthusiastic about how we manage to understand each other when we’re learning new words - or when useful folk categories, like “trees” and “fish” don’t line up with evolutionary taxonomies...

Listen to the full episode here: soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm...

This for linguistics too, there are so many cooler things happening in modern linguistics than outdated stuff from the 1940s to build your scifi on!!

Thanks for the shout-out! (We're bad at keeping up with online video so especially appreciate the pointers to youtube channels we're less likely to know about!)

Popular linguistics Hi everyone. I’ve been watching the news with horror but also hope for the last few weeks, like probably everyone else on the internet. The stories of people...

This month, I tell you about some of my favorite popular #linguistics YTs, blogs, and books! (Naturally it's got @gretchenmcculloch.com and @lingthusiasm.com!)

YUP SURE IS

Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics lingthusiasm: 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...

We've had sf authors tell us that @lingthusiasm.com is one way they enjoy getting more linguistics-y story ideas, though in the interests of not sending everyone to the exact same place perhaps I should direct you to our megapost instead:
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...

AMAZING

Yes! I used this as a reference:

Cartoonish drawings of silly cardinals sitting on the vowels a, e, i, o, and u. Their shapes mimic diagrams of vowel tongue positions. The referenced diagram can be found on Wikipedia- source: Jones, Daniel. (1972) An outline of English phonetics (9th ed.).

I was listening to the podcast @lingthusiasm.com and was suddenly struck by inspiration that I HAD to get out IMMEDIATELY. So without further ado, may I present.......

Cardinal Vowels

wait no they ARE tongues?? now I'm second guessing myself

if you want tongue shapes to play with though I suggest this website
dood.al/pinktrombone/

absolutely LOVE it

I was briefly tempted to see if some part of the cardinals (their beaks?) was indicating the location or tongue position or something of the cardinal vowels in the mouth/vowel space but even extra nerdery not required haha

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62: Cool things about scales and implicature Lingthusiasm Episode 62: Cool things about scales and implicature We can plot the words we use to describe temperature on a scale: cold, cool, warm, hot. It’s not as precise as a temperature scale ...

Don't know what scalar implicature is but now intrigued that it can be used for jokes?

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"More than 3 years ago, the famous Roman emperor Julius Caesar passed away" written over a marble bust of Caesar.

New favourite example of scalar implicature

Lingthusiasm A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Weird and deep conversations about the hidden language patterns that you didn't realize you were already making....

Lil sprucing up update: our handle on bluesky is now our website!

Maybe this is a fun excuse to poke around on www.lingthusiasm.com if you haven't been there in a while!

112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL) Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of what they've said, there are certain steps tha

Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of it, there are certain steps that make it easier for that analysis to happen.

In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about how language becomes linguistic data!

Transcript Episode 112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL) This is a transcript for Lingthusiasm episode ‘When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL). It’s been lightly edited for readability. Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podca...

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Lingthusiasm - Lingthusiasm Episode 112: When language... Lingthusiasm Episode 112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL) Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying some...

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112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL) Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between the raw experience of someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of what they've said, there are certain steps tha

Language is all around us. This sentence right here, is language! But between someone saying something and a linguistic analysis of it, there are certain steps that make it easier for that analysis to happen.

In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about how language becomes linguistic data!

cf. @lingthusiasm.bsky.social’s “water bottle with all three glottal symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet on it, aka a glottal bottle” bsky.app/profile/ling... which, it should be noted, can be filled with /r, ʀ, ɾ, ɽ, ɹ, ɻ, ɺ, l, ɭ, ʎ, ʟ/, i.e. any liquid

111: Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!! Wait, surprise is associated with a particular intonation!? Oh, you can see surprise by measuring electricity from your brain!? Hang on, some languages have grammatical marking for surprise!? In thi

Wait, surprise is associated with a particular intonation!? Oh, you can see surprise by measuring electricity from your brain!? Hang on, some languages have grammatical marking for surprise!?

In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about surprise!

Colleague 1: What is a mirative?
Colleague 2: The linguistic expression of surprise
Colleague 1: What, really!?

Unintended humour

😂😂😂

People have been asking us for Lingthusiasm bloopers for a LONG time, so we've finally found mustered up a few that are actually reasonably funny

The bloopers reel has people asking about the linguistics of bloopers and we've done that too!

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Bonus 107: Swifties, amorch, Melbin, and bloopers! - Deleted Scenes from Adam Aleksic, Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez, and the advice episode | Lingthusiasm Get more from Lingthusiasm on Patreon

The unique communication styles of Swifites on tiktok, a cute Spanish internet meme, and some Lingthusiasm lore - plus bloopers!

It's a new bonus episode with deleted scenes from our interviews with @etymologynerd.bsky.social and @parasynthetic.bsky.social, and our second advice episode