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 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text 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: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and kee...
Send us a text 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: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening a...
Send us a text 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 @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry ...
Send us a text 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 @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 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 [email protected] Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford , emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language , growing up in Guyana, moving to the United States, and his love of linguistics and Black Talk. Fifth anniversary sign up 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 Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited volume Questions about Language: What Everybody Should Know about Language in the 21st Century . This episode is sponsored by FindingFive , a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfi...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team ( Mathew Andreatta , Jessie Recalma , Chief Michael Recalma , and Dr Su Urbanczyk ) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island. This episode is sponsored by FindingFive , a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only) FF-EU-FRIES (EU server, ht...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek , a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences . See the two graphs Hadas had us look at here . This episode is sponsored by FindingFive , a tech non-profit. Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https:...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language , Eufemia Fantetti , Professor of English at Humber College , and Ayelet Tsabari , who teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and University of King’s College, about their new book, writing in English as a second language, Molisan, Hebrew, and Yemeni Arabic. Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalf...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud! This is a sponsored episode, where you learn all about how FindingFive works! You can get a complimentary one-month Pro subscription that comes with premium features and 100 free participants for the redeemed monthly cycle: FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only) FF...
Send us a text Renee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with an unlikeable 20-something woman protagonist who works in a startup. Tune in to hear all the weird things they’re both into. Books Mentioned: Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang Diamo...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez , a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science . 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 Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners , which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these languages – and the people who speak them – in developing quality, locally relevant education in order to preserve languages and ways of life as well as to promote equality and social cohesion. #GLAD22 Myanmar Dance Workout Video during the coup (action starts around 1:4...
Send us a text In this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists. 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 sticker and a shout out on the p...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessi Grieser about her new book, The Black Side of the River , DC, Tennessee and the way Black residents of Anacostia talk about their neighborhood and themselves. Galician songs here and here 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 ...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter. 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 sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undying ...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Mara Wilson about her voice, her neurodivergence, and the IPA. Transcript available here . 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 sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have our undyi...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk to Dr Sylvia Sierra about her new book, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation , intertextuality, memes, and the tropes embedded in internet memes. Transcript available here 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, a...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner , author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters. Transcript available here 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 sticker...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza , postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard , about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here .) We also discuss International Week of Deaf People 2021 and The genocide of signed languages: protecting the linguistic rights of Africa’s deaf children . One of our patrons sent in the correct pronunciation of her name. Thanks SZ! We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Natalyn Daniels , Clery Liaison at the University of California, Berkeley , and Dr. Rose Wilkerson , lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, about growing up on the Navajo Nation, transferring to Berkeley from community college, sociolinguistics, academic English, standard language ideology and the language of love. Transcript We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurrin...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper " On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, two of the co-authors, and the dangers of large language models and NLP. We also briefly discuss Lord Digby Jones and his classism and Alex Scott's amazing comeback . Deborah Raji's MIT Technology Review paper. Transcript We're an indi...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with the cohosts of Maintenance Phase , Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon , about wellness, diet culture, fatness and how not to be an asshole to fat people. Buy Aubrey's book . 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 sticker ...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral. 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 sticker and a shout out on the podcast! But you can contribute as little as $2/mo and have...
Send us a text Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism , out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to entice and keep followers and why cults fascinate us. Check out her podcast Sounds Like a Cult . 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 bon...
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer , dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors. Check out some of his Wired videos (featuring Megan!) here , here , and here . Megan in the NYT . 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 g...
