The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano , PhD students at the University of Umea , about their class called “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”. Top 20 Eurovision songs Malta and Estonia Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text We talk with Dr Lorna Gibb about her newest book, Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages . Steven Pinker: Harvard Derangement Syndrome vs. LSA Jews and IQ Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Drs Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna , Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want , out May 13, 2025. Virtual Book Launch May 8, 2025, 2-4 PDT Bender v. Bubeck Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is enuf: Our failed attempts to make English eezier to spell . Puerto Rico and English as an Official Language Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Gerald Roche , Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, about his new book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet , language oppression, solidarity, China and Tibet. LSA's response to the EO on English as the Official Language of the US Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Massimiliano Canzanella about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy. Asian languages and the LA fires Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Adam Benkato , Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, about Arabic. codeswitching in incarceration Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Ayala Fader , professor of anthropology at Fordham University, and Dr Mike Mena , Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, about their new project, the Demystifying Language Project, where academics and high school students work together to rewrite linguistic articles into more accessible versions. First article: Speech or Silence Intro from our patron René: Barron's : MP makes her first speech in sign language Speech of the year Support the show ...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk to Dr Leonard Cassuto , Professor of English at Fordham University, about his class called "Literature and Psychology of Disgust," which explores how language evokes emotional responses, particularly disgust, and his book Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, which was released in September . Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and ...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Elia Powers , Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University, about his book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality . 5 Podcasts for Word Nerds NY Times Why Does Trump Do That Weird Capitalization Thing? HuffPost (sometimes Gillon is misspelled as Gillion, as per uzh) Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listenin...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Laura C. Chávez-Moreno , assistant professor at UCLA in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, about her book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America , coming out October 1 . Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Henderson , Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, about his newest book (with Dr Elin Mccready), Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles. Botanical taxonomy Common names of birds Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, Writing Beyond Writing , what writing is, his journey to caring about Endangered Alphabets and his favourite scripts. Nuxalk album Red Bubble Insufferable Twits Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 in the United States . New language in Australia Chaos/order muppets Support the show Contact us: Threa...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 f Listen on Podurama Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod....
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 blindness." Journal of Visual Culture, 5 (2): 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412906066909 https://pbs.jhu.ed...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
