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Episode 20: The Ghost of Language Past
Wherein we play language games.Jump right to:12:47 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Language games37:07 Question 1: Could y’all talk about how your understanding of how to pronounce the word can affect…
Episode 19: Voiced Glottal Stop 2k25
Wherein we are pro-winter until approximately February 15.Jump right to:4:38 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Allophones26:50 Question 1: Why do we say “And you will be… (this person)?” when confirming…
Episode 18: Can't Say "Teeth" Without Teeth
Wherein we are not professionals.Jump right to:4:44 Language Thing of the Day: The short scale vs the long scale21:38 Question 1: Why do we use 'on' to refer to spiders being 'on' ceilings? To me the…
LxAD @ CrossingsCon Announcement
Linguistics After Dark will be live next month! Come see us at CrossingsCon in Philadelphia, August 15th–17th. More details at crossingscon.orgtranscript:ELI: Hey, hey, Sarah, what do you call it…
Episode 17: The Vibes Are Iffy
Wherein we learn how to learn how to read.Jump right to:4:53 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Existential “be” versus straight copula16:32 Topic of the day: Phonics vs. the 3-cueing model, AKA how…
Episode 16: SOUTHWYIGHTCKPQRFML
Wherein we guess that’s part of our grammar now.Jump right to:6:16 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Vowel shifts44:23 Question 1: Why do British people say “I was sat there” instead of “I was sitting…
Episode 15: Mr. White Is On Blast
Wherein we enjoy swearing, big lakes, and ambiguity more than most people.Jump right to:6:25 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Swearing26:10 After marrying my wife, who is from Chicago, I (who am a…
Episode 14: SNUBA (Snail Tuba)
Wherein we have an actual disagreement on the podcast! Jump right to: 2:42 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Ways to Make Words! 42:18 Is it possible to have a different accent in your speaking voice…
Episode 13: A-blade-ive
Wherein we shove things away (with knives). Jump right to: 0:37 Is there a word in some language for “responding to the literal words and not the subtext of a request? 4:22 Response question from…
Episode 12: Dead Language Power
Wherein we are not warful. Jump right to: 3:36 A slight correction about the etymology of “magic” 5:55 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Verb voice, aka diathesis 23:01 Question 1: I [once] initially…
Episode 11: The Axiom of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wherein we are not already in textbooks. Jump right to: 2:25 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Ergativity 25:50 Some people would say “historic moment” or “electric field”; others seem to say…
Episode 10: Voiceless Alvie
Wherein we finally post this collection of tangents in a trenchcoat. Jump right to: 15:09 Sneaky Question 0: As my high school-aged daughter starts to look towards college, she wants to learn more…
Episode 9: You Can't Live A Dangerous Banana
Wherein we finish the podcast in under four hours! Jump right to: 5:43 Language Thing Of The Day: Transitivity 34:55 Question 1: Are accents predictable? That is, there are specific accents people…
Episode 8: No Linguist Can Afford That House
Wherein we KISS-FIST linguistics. Jump right to: 3:15 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Garden path sentences 25:05 How do [in/formal] registers change over time; do they stairstep as we invent new…
Episode 7: The Fax Machine of Gondor
Wherein we spin a shitpost question into linguistics gold. Jump right to: 0:58 Mailbag; revisiting our treatment of linguistic typology 12:14 Language Thing of the Day: The Comparative Method …
Episode 6: Hamburger. Hamburger? Hamburger!
Wherein we find an excuse to recommend a bunch of music to you.Jump right to:2:26 Language Thing of the Day: Filler words14:17 Question 1: How did we get nicknames that don't seem to make sense? Like…
Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2022 (full video with audio description at the end)
Wherein we #GiveLinguistsSwords. (Please note that this recording cut out a lot of background noise and claps/cheers, so if there is a weird volume jump up or down, that might be why.) Jump right…
Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2022
Wherein we #GiveLinguistsSwords. (Please note that this recording cut out a lot of background noise and claps/cheers, so if there is a weird volume jump up or down, that might be why.) Jump right…
Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2021
We've gone live for #CrossingsCon! ...two years ago. And before we fell further into our unintended hiatus, we forgot to post this episode anywhere besides YouTube. Oops!! So here is this, and a…
LxAD @ CrossingsCon Announcement
Hello, and welcome to Linguistics After Dark! I'm Sarah, and this not really an episode—it's another teaser for next week's live show at CrossingsCon: Slipping Sideways. At 7pm New York time, Tuesday…
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