For the Love of Language

Does changing your accent change who you are? How to change your accent and how that impacts your identity and more with special guest Harrison.

We discuss several aspects of Speech Language Pathology with an expert!

A brief foray into articles, some examples of different phonemes, and several tips to improve your accent if you're learning another language!

How is word order different between languages?

We discuss changing names for people, places, and even religions.

How people moving between countries can speak a language trapped in time.

When and why do people switch languages in a single conversation?

Why do consonants between vowels sometimes not sound like they're spelled?

Executive Order 14224 recently designated English the official language of the U.S.. We discuss what this actually means.

Why do you speak differently than your grandma?

Special guest Liam Connerly, an expert in Latin and Greek, talks with us about education and etymology!  Listen to Liam's podcast, Latin in Layman's - A Rhetoric Revolution here !

How names become words with their own meanings. How brands die and Karen becomes the person you don't want to be.

How do we imply things that others can infer? How do we create implicatures? We discuss the Gricean Maxims of quality, quantity, relation, and manner.

Straw men, slippery slopes, ad hominem and more. How do people use twisted logic? We reference the logical fallacies from: Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html Grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/rhetorical-devices/logical-fallacies/  

We talk about emotional vs logical arguments, how syllogisms work, and how to convince your friends that the sky is orange.

We dive into the pros and cons of audiobooks and narration, with a significant tangent into the importance of human connection.

We discuss some of the different types of gaslighting. If you need help, reach out to your emergency services or the Domestic Violence Hotline at https://www.thehotline.org/ or by calling (800) 799-7233.

We discuss compound questions, leading questions, and some of the differences in how questions are formed between different languages and cultures.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! We discuss Star Trek's Tamarian encounter and how Captain Picard learns how to communicate using the Tamarians' historical metaphors.

Breaking everything into little boxes. And EJ's dog definitely wanted to be a part of the show.

We discuss the fantastic episode of Bluey where the mom asks the family to say "toilet" instead of "dunny." You can find Dunny if you watch Bluey on Disney+.

Can we define poetry? What makes good poetry? How do you find your voice? Do you have a poem inside you? Is AI ruining poetry? And, Stacie shares her "Ode to Pizza." Joshua recommends A Poet's Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie and "Picnic, Lightning" by Billy Collins.

We talk about different aspects of body language and give some examples of body languages across cultures. EJ recommends reading  What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro, and  The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease.

We discuss ideas from the study Does bilingualism protect against dementia? A meta-analysis by John A. E. Anderson, Kornelia Hawrylewicz, and John G. Grundy. Find the study at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32462636/ .

A syntax discussion! What is merge? Is language actually special at all, or just one of a billion instances of merge in the human experience? Stacie references the book  Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language by Naoki Fukui.