131: Words of the Week of the Year 2025 (live with friends) (01:31:55)
Video for this episode: https://youtu.be/Mqf05kN-TaI It's Word of the Year season, and we're counting down our Words of the Week of the Year! In the time-honoured tradition, we gathered them all up fr...
130: Back to the FTR (with Séan Roberts, Cole Robertson, and Annemarie Verkerk) (02:53:34)
You know the story. The language you speak doesn't determine your savings. If your language has a future tense, there's no impact on the way you see or describe the future. Language and perception are...
129: They Started It: Children and Language Evolution (with Madeleine Beekman) (02:25:50)
We've asked linguists about how language began, but what would an evolutionary biologist tell you? Prof Madeleine Beekman says it's part of a complex web of body, brain, and community, and at the hear...
128: Across the Universe (with Natan Last) (02:07:26)
Among so many great word games, crosswords still reign supreme. How have they survived — and even expanded — in our digital age? What goes into a good puzzle, and will computer techniques take over? D...
127: Oh (with Maia Chao, Kelly Wright, and Caitlin Green) (02:15:56)
The "Oh" show was an experimental linguistics performance lecture. It happened in June 2025 at Creative Time HQ in New York City. Actors, musicians, and audience came together (with at least one lingu...
125: Friends With Words (live with Martha Barnette and friends) (01:31:09)
Martha Barnette is one half of the linguistics podcast A Way With Words, and author of the new book Friends With Words: Adventures in Languageland. Her lifelong love of language has led her through so...
124: Algospeak (with Adam Aleksic) (01:49:40)
Creators have to be mindful of what to say and what not to say in their content. This affects the language we're exposed to — and what we say IRL. But it's part of an old process. Popular LingToker Ad...
123: Conscious Language (with Karen Yin) (01:54:22)
We've all seen style guides that tell us what to say and what not to say. Has a style guide ever asked you what you wanted to say? Or challenged you to examine your thinking? This one does. It's the C...
122: The Interaction Engine (with Stephen Levinson) (00:55:34)
How did language start? What do all languages have in common? How does language really work? Many answers have been posed to these questions, but one thing is for sure: interaction is the combustion c...
121: Learning from LLMs (with Adele Goldberg) (02:22:45)
How do large language models (LLMs) do their thing, and it is anything like how we do our thing? What can we learn about human language from this software? The answer might involve constructions — pai...
120: Gesture! ✨👐✨ (with Lauren Gawne) (01:54:22)
Gesture is everywhere. We wave our hands when we talk, even if we're alone. Signed languages are, of course, full languages that use gesture. And it could even be argued that emoji are the online equi...
119: Eurovision Goes to Uni (with Paulette van der Voet and Solveig Bollig) (02:15:17)
It's Eurovision season! We love to talk about what we can learn about language from this international song contest, but even we didn't realise that there was so much to learn. Language choice, langua...
118: The A.I. Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna) (00:51:26)
Artificial intelligence (so-called) is typified by its boom and bust cycles, and we're in a boom now. But as more and more money pours in with decreasing returns, we're going to see a shakeout, and hy...
117: Sometimes It Feels Like I'm the Only One Trying to Fix English Around Here (live with friends for LingFest25) (01:47:19)
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/wxGeXMzlwng If you repeat something twice, how many times did you do it? Can more than one dinner be "the perfect dinner"? And what does "every other" m...
116: Enough Is Enuf (with Gabe Henry) (02:07:14)
Spelling reform in English: a constant failure? Or a secret success? Waves upon waves of optimists have tried to make English spelling reflect its sound and escape its etymological origins, but have n...
114: Bye Bye I Love You (with Michael Erard) (01:56:29)
First words and last words get a lot of attention. But how did words get to have such a place of prominence? What would we see if we focused on interaction instead? A new book looks at words, gestures...
113: "Official" English (with Carmen Fought) (00:48:23)
Breaking news: The president of the United States intends to sign an executive order designating English the official language of the USA. Is this a big deal? Why was this necessary, and what happens ...
112: WotY 2024: The Last Word (01:33:10)
What really goes on behind the scenes at the biggest Word of the Year vote in linguistdom? Are we really going to stick with sanewashing for our word? And which words did we miss? We lock in and crash...
111: Words of the Week of the Year 2024 (live with Mignon Fogarty and friends) (01:42:41)
It's our Words of the Year episode, where we do a vibe check on all the words and name one of them our Because Language Word of the Year. We're joined by Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty and a lot of frien...
110: Diego's Dossier (with Diego Diaz) (01:04:03)
What's in the linguistic news? Diego knows. He's been tracking down stories and words for us all year long, and now he's curated an entire show for us. It's the latest in the Diego series. How do you...
109: Language Oppression in Tibet (with Gerald Roche and Sasha Wilmoth) (02:35:46)
Minority languages are under threat everywhere, but Tibet represents a particularly difficult challenge. The Tibetan language family is under pressure from (no surprise) Mandarin, even as community su...
108: Mailbag of Etymology (with Douglas Harper) (01:24:59)
We're joined for the first time by Douglas Harper, proprietor of the world-renowned Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com). He's here to help us with our Mailbag questions, and even test us in a...
107: Linguaphile (with Julie Sedivy and Matt Spike) (02:07:19)
Language is a lot like love. You can enjoyably lose yourself in both. They can both be dangerous. And they both entail a responsibility to keep each other safe. A new book Linguaphile: A Life of Langu...
106: What One Thing? (with Mark Ellison) (01:21:26)
What one thing explains the most about language? Here to answer that question is linguist and friend of the pod Dr Mark Ellison — and many of our listeners and friends. It's one of our Deck Chats! Gra...
105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends) (01:36:21)
For our 500th episode, we got together with our great listeners for their words, stories, and inspiration. It's a look back at the show, a look at language from our friends' point of view, and a celeb...
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