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“What’s your pronoun?” Good question.
Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and non-binary people. In general, it’s helpful to disclose pronouns, but there’s a little more to this story.
Daniel and Ben are talking to researcher …
It’s been a big year for singular they, but there’s more than one pronoun in town.
What invented pronouns have there been? How far back does singular they go? And why did some people kick up a fuss about …
Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They’re the ones where you have to think for a second to get them straight.
Why do our brains have this problem? What about these words makes them so …
Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view.
So which voices are getting validated? Why are certain voices getting repressed? How do we end accent prejudice?
Daniel and Ben are speaking to Dr Jane Setter, author …
It’s Word of the Year time, and there are more words than ever before.
We bring you the results from the yearly American Dialect Society vote, and from dictionaries around the world on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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…Just about every week, we bring you the Words of the Week. Which word from 2019 will listeners vote to make Talk the Talk‘s Word of the Year? And which words did we miss?
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Again we open the Mailbag and answer our listeners’ questions.
- What do lisps sound like in languages without the ‘th’ sound?
- How do gender-neutral terms work in languages with gendered pronouns?
- Do languages get more efficient over time?
- One-third looks
Language and culture are tightly bound. Or are they?
Many speakers of the Australian language Dalabon are shifting to Kriol. But the two languages function in very different ways. Will speakers be able to translate relevant concepts over, despite linguistic …
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