For the Love of Language

We talk about working with teams, note-taking, the value of networking, and building connections by asking questions.

How do langauges become international? How do widely spoken languages impact minority ones? What would it take for Icelandic to become a lingua franca?

We discuss markedness, with a brief foray into phonetics. Stacie references the 1986 book  Markedness , edited by Fred R. Eckman, Edith A. Moravcsik, and Jessica R. Wirth.

How do different languages handle numbers? Note: Here is a reference for different languages' plural rules for software localization:  https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/43/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html  

What are the different ways people perceive grammaticality in language?  In this discussion, we rely heavily on Dr. Gert-Jan Schoenmakers' recent research in  Linguistic judgments in 3D: the aesthetic quality, linguistic acceptability, and surface probability of stigmatized and non-stigmatized variation , which can be downloaded here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2021-0179/h...

We discuss how the Navajo language was used as an unbreakable code during World War II. We recommend reading Chester Nez's book Code Talker to learn more.

From simple platitudes to flipping people off, we discuss how politeness manifests in different scenarios.

We answer this fantastic question that came up on our Instagram.

Why and how do people speak multiple languages in the same conversation?

We discuss how we speak differently when speaking to children.

Ashely de Tello and Connie Davis join us from De Tello Publishing to talk about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and content marketing. We touch on using keywords, how AI can be used to help generate content, and catering your content to your audience.

What is Artificial Intelligence? Is it actually intelligent? We share our thoughts on the newest AI that's all the rage: ChatGPT.

Do you think of fluffy beasts falling from the sky whenever someone says, "it's raining cats and dogs," or do you think of getting out your slingshot when your boss says, "let's kill two birds with one stone?" This episode is all about idioms.

We talk with Amanda about how she became a Speech Language Pathologist and what that means.

What are the different myths around language creation and how languages became distinct from each other? We talk about several different cultures' language origin stories.

We dive into domain-specific language, as well as cultural appropriation and whether jargon should always be public.

References referring to referents can get interesting.

We team up with Only the Strongest, some of our amazing podcasting capoeira friends, and talk about how language is used in the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira. List to more of Only the Strongest here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3jw3OGIPDqc2jL8isOFHVD?si=6a1547224f18447e

What does your language look like when you're speaking to yourself in your head? We discuss thought in interpretation, how people address themselves in their heads, and changing your inner dialog.

Ashley de Tello, the CEO of De Tello Publishing, joins us to talk about how she helps people profitably publish their ideas. We dive into different parts of the writing and publishing process, as well as ghost writing. Check out De Tello Publishing at detellopublishing.com .

We discuss one of the most famous studies in Linguistics.

Why are animal sounds different in different languages? We dive into some phonetics and discuss onomatopoeias.