The Vocal Fries

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Ross Perlin ,  co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance , about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Language Map of NYC ASL at the NHL   Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Kris Aric Knisley and Eric Louis Russell about their book Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities , gender, critical linguistics, trans linguistics, and uneffing all things. Sperm Whale "phonetic alphabet" Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Em...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Rusty Barrett , Professor of Linguistics, Jennifer Cramer , Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, and Kevin B. McGowan , Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the University of Kentucky Phonetics Lab (all at at the University of Kentucky), about their book English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination i...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Curzan about her book Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words . Trump's brain Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Sheri Wells-Jensen,  Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, about her chapter Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Alien s in the new book Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language , blind aliens, how languages can be, and her appreciation of the movie Arrival. Support the show...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Lee Moore about the linguistic situation in China, particularly the hostile environment towards Uyghurs. He is also the author of " A dyslexic learning Chinese ". WOTY23 Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry o...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Suzanne Wertheim about her book, The Inclusive Language Field Guide: 6 Simple Principles for Avoiding Painful Mistakes and Communicating Respectfully . pentl'atch named a living language Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep ca...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Rebecca Roache about her book, For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun .  Great British Bake Off Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Bryce McCleary, Lecturer in Linguistics at Rice University, about his paper “'We All Country': Region, Place, and Community Language among Oklahoma City Drag Performers". Australia referendum Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listen...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Poppy Mardall, the founder and chair of Poppy’s , about the Dead Good Words campaign around dehumanizing and euphemistic language about death. Calm History podcast West Virginia University shutting down World Languages WVU Finances Jonah Katz Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfri...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Felicity Meakins , Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and Briony Barr , a visual-conceptual-teaching artist and co-founder of the Scale Free Network , about their book Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Territory , why termites are important to Gurindji people, and why they wanted to work on this project. Ken knows how to...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy,  Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss , about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Floss Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies Silver Lining of pandemic  Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson , Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.  Sources: https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000061 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdf https://news2.rice.edu/2019/07/23/rice-study-seeks-to-improve-braille-literacy-2/ Kleege, Georgina. 2006. "Visible braille/invisible blindn...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English , how to pronounce Nevada, and all things language. Charles Boberg's article on 'foreign (a)' Words with no English equivalents Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfrie...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports.  He shoots, he scores! Intro discussion: video  Vox article Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura , and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc. Whale vocal fry: npr wapo nytimes Background on phonic lips Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language . Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech . What do moos mean? Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening a...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman /Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder , narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. Quebec economic immigrants Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfries...

Send us Fan Mail Example bonus episode from November 2022. We talk WOTY22! Full episode coming soon Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien  Guillory-Chatman , members of the first Wikitongues cohort , about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana.    Collins' WOTY22 A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliteration Dictionary.com's new words Learn Kouri-Vini Support the show Contact us: Th...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse , linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper " Ted Cruz Cucks Again" ,  the origins and meaning of "cuck",  white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right. Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the intro The Authority Gap Morality of Abortion Support the show Contact us...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald , host of Unstandardized English , a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness,  about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness . Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript: https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3g Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vo...

Send us Fan Mail You asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About /Vocal Fries crossover event is here. Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things. Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript: https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3g Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriesp...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t". Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on