The Vocal Fries

Send us Fan Mail April Fools!  But it's the good kind of prank.  Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a similar show to help grow our audiences by introducing people to shows they might not have heard of. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use  your support. You can set up a monthly recurring don...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, about their new edited volume, Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies . Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation , indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish non-binary morphemes. On the word wet market Ártemis's Medium article on accessibility Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper , lexicographer extraordinaire, about lexicography, her experience on the History of Swear Words , and her favourite swear word. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level giv...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan discuss the nominations and winners of the American Dialect Society 's Word of the Year for 2020. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as we...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan discuss Yamiche Alcindor 's " ungrammatical sentences " and Latinx /Latine supposedly ruining Dem's electoral chances . Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you acces...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton Professor of Anthropology at UCLA , about her new edited book, Language in the Trump Era . Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthl...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with JPB Gerald , host of Unstandardized English , a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, EdD student and adult educator about whiteness in language education.  Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $1...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Katherine D. Kinzler , Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, about her new book How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You . Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Charity Hudley , Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about how to dismantle white supremacy in linguistics. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/m...

Send us Fan Mail It's the Fries' 3 year anniversary! Carrie and Megan respond to listener voicemails about linguistic discrimination.  Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episod...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie discuss the letter to the LSA and then talk with Dr. Marie-Eve Monette, founder of Creating Puentes , about the importance of translation and interpretation services and her life as a French speaker living in the US. Links: https://endangeredlanguagesproject.github.io/COVID-19/ https://remezcla.com/culture/coronavirus-resource-kit-ayuda-en-espanol/ https://www.wir...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Marianne Mason , newly minted Associate Professor of Spanish at James Madison University, about police interviews, the Reid technique, and linguistics and the law. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use  your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Linet Mera, co-founder of the Unconscious Bias Project, and Lucretia Iruela , consultant to the UBP, about unconscious bias and the Project. You can help the UBP here (fundraiser on May 14) New COVID online resources  On May 23rd, you can join their Shelter in Space Dance Party & Benefit - a Community party for #TogetherAgainstBias series Transcr...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with David Bowles , a Mexican-American author from south Texas who teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley, about Classical Nahuatl and the culture of the people who spoke it. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use  your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at  patreon.com/vocalfriesp...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Kendra Calhoun , graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about anti-hegemonic racial humor on Vine. 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 talks with Dr. Nelson Flores, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor at Stanford, about the bilingual brain, semilingualism, and why people keep confusing them for the other. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Sharese King , postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at t...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk to Dr. Laurel MacKenzie, Assistant Professor at NYU, about all things names. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at Patreon . We have mugs now at the $15/mo level! The $5/mo level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as well as a Vocal Fries s...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie chat with Dr Anna Marie Trester , founder of Career Linguist , about the importance of linguistics to the workplace. (Employers: you need us!) Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our mont...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Daniel Bogre Udell , cofounder of Wikitongues , about language documentation and revitalization. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our monthly bonus episode, as we...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Melissa Baese-Berk , Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, about native and non-native English and the different levels of effort required to understand each. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Gearoidin McEvoy , PhD Candidate in Minority Language Rights Law at Dublin City University and cohost of Motherfoclóir , about Irish and the law. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at patreon.com/vocalfriespod. The $5 a month level gives you access to our mo...

Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk to Ebony Joachim, at Living Languages , who runs professional development courses for Indigenous communities in Australia, about her work, language revitalization and documentation, and the languages of Australia. We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use  your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at  patreon.c...

Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Zachary Jaggers , Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oregon, about differences in pronunciation of borrowings and what they tell us (or don't tell us) about people's political leanings. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation...