Slate Podcasts

Slate Debates

Society EN ↓ 399 episodes

A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.

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Lexicon Valley #22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper 03.12.2012 31:06

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Cherokee syllabary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals 12.11.2012 35:22

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the debate over "illegal" versus "undocumented" at the heart of U.S. immigration policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes 29.10.2012 34:33

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo speak with Nataly Kelly, coauthor of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop 15.10.2012 33:20

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our mental dictionary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange 01.10.2012 27:07

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word 17.09.2012 27:51

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the A-word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley 18.07.2012 3:43

Mike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words 09.07.2012 23:40

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then 02.07.2012 32:04

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them 18.06.2012 32:59

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #13: Capturing the Past 11.06.2012 40:03

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #12: The Eloquence of Plain English 04.06.2012 32:33

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #11: When Being Done Replaced Doing 27.05.2012 28:44

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #10: One Giant Leap for Humanity 14.05.2012 39:58

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #9: And May He Be a Masculine Bridge 07.05.2012 32:00

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #8: When Nouns Grew Genitals 30.04.2012 30:30

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #7: A Needle Pulling Thread 23.04.2012 30:19

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley 04.04.2012 3:27

Mike announces a batch of brand new episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #6: A Meditation on Scrabble 12.03.2012 35:45

Mike Vuolo talks to "Word Freak" author Stefan Fatsis about the nature of language in Scrabble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #5: Untuning the String 05.03.2012 37:22

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to author David Skinner about his book, The Story of Ain't, which will be published in the fall of 2012. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O 27.02.2012 41:08

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #3: Consider the Lamppost 20.02.2012 30:09

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the hypercorrected incorrectness of "between you and I." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #2: A Bundle of Faggots 13.02.2012 32:47

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the evolution of the word "faggot." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lexicon Valley #1: A Sin of Which None Is Guilty 06.02.2012 24:43

Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the longstanding English language proscription against ending a sentence with a preposition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices