
First released: 24th March 2017
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- 1.Swearing and pseudo-swears32:51
- 2.How to teach yourself linguistics19:35
- 3.Doggo linguistics behind the scenes8:54
- 4.Hypercorrection18:04
- 5.Language play26:28
- 6.DIY linguistic research25:55
- 7.Hark, a liveshow! So, like, what’s up with discourse markers?36:53
- 8.Is X a sandwich? Solving the word-meaning argument24:13
- 9.Liveshow Q and eh29:34
- 10.We are all linguistic geniuses: Interview with Daniel Midgley of Talk the Talk28:56
- 11.Creating languages for fun and learning27:23
- 12.The grammar of swearing25:30
- 13.The Poetry of Memes: Roses are red in the icebox36:20
- 14.What you should know if you’re considering applying to linguistics grad school37:47
- 15.Forensic linguistics34:37
- 16.Homonyms, homophones, and homographs31:50
- 17.Emoji, Gesture, and the International Congress of Linguists - Behind the scenes on the linguistics conference circuit30:48
- 18.Hyperforeignisms33:04
- 19.Bringing up bilingual babies28:38
- 20.What’s it really like at academic conferences?32:48
- 21.Q&A about old words, ears, Australian English, and more29:35
- 22.Naming people (and especially babies)29:45
- 23.How the internet is making English better (liveshow from Melbourne)38:36
- 24.Adapting your language to other people35:27
- 25.How do radio announcers know how to pronounce all the names? With guest Tiger Webb36:40
- 26.Talking with dogs, horses, ravens, dolphins, bees, and other animals32:08
- 27.North, left, or towards the sea? With guest Alice Gaby31:35
- 28.Words from your family - Familects!22:03
- 29.Welcome aboard the metaphor train!29:00
- 30.Behind the scenes on Because Internet (Q&A)33:30
- 31.Jobs, locations, family, and invention - Surnames26:01
- 32.Reading fiction like a linguist31:57
- 33.The sounds of sheep, earthquakes, and ice cream - Onomatopoeia21:42
- 34.What might English be like in a couple hundred years?30:20
- 35.Generating a Lingthusiasm episode using a neural net49:10
- 36.Teaching linguistics to yourself and other people29:00
- 37.When letters have colours and time is a braid - The linguistics of synesthesia35:52
- 38.A myriad of numbers - Counting systems across languages34:14
- 39.Doing linguistics with kids37:53
- 40.Tones, drums, and whistles - Linguistics and music28:47
- 41.LingComm on a budget (plus the Lingthusiasm origin story)43:44
- 42.The quick brown pangram jumps over the lazy dog40:09
- 43.The most esteemed honorifics episode33:51
- 44.Crash Course Linguistics behind the scenes with Jessi Grieser44:00
- 45.Q&A with lexicographer Emily Brewster of Merriam-Webster33:47
- 46.Deleted scenes - Outtakes from Lingthusiasm interviews40:25
- 47.100th episode Q&A about naming dogs, modifying English, linguistics research, and more41:03
- 48.The episode-episode (reduplication)35:14
- 49.Talking to babies and small children32:31
- 50.Lingthusiasm liveshow: The listener talks back (on backchannelling)46:20
- 51.Gotta test ‘em all - The linguistics of Pokémon names33:20
- 52.Language under the influence31:17
- 53.Sentient plants, proto-internet, and more lingfic about quirky communication42:08
- 54.Q&A with Emily Gref from language museum Planet Word31:16
- 55.Lingwiki and linguistics on Wikipedia35:46
- 56.Linguistic 〰️✨ i l l u s i o n s ✨〰️35:31
- 57.Linguistics puzzles for fun and olympiad glory27:50
- 58.We interview each other! Seasons, word games, Unicode, and more33:29
- 59.Emoji, Mongolian, and Multiocular O ꙮ - Dispatches from the Unicode Conference40:59
- 60.Behind the scenes on how linguists come up with research topics38:07
- 61.Approaching word games like a linguist - Interview with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer of Spectacular Vernacular45:38
- 62.What makes a swear word feel sweary? A &⩐#⦫& Liveshow31:16
- 63.There’s like, so much to like about “like”29:44
- 64.Language inside an MRI machine - Interview with Saima Malik-Moraleda37:39
- 65.Using a rabbit to get kids chatting for science26:43
- 66.Behind the scenes on making an aesthetic IPA chart - Interview with Lucy Maddox37:32
- 67.Linguistics and science communication - Interview with Liz McCullough36:10
- 68.103 ways for kids to learn languages43:19
- 69.Speakest Thou Ye Olde English?37:30
- 70.Parrots, art and what even is a word - deleted scenes from Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox and Randall Munroe interviews37:30
- 71.Singapore, New Zealand, and a favourite linguistics paper - 2023 Year Ahead Chat30:18
- 72.When books speculate on the future of English35:34
