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Back to SearchWallowing in Negativity
Episode 207
When a simple no will not suffice.
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5 years, 1 month ago
Fossil Hunting in English
Episode 206
Our language contains a trove of buried clues, petrified remnants of its past. But you have to know where to dig.
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5 years, 2 months ago
Fossil Hunting in English
Episode 206
Knowing where to dig is the key to uncovering our linguistic past.
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5 years, 2 months ago
Why Do Languages Have Gender?
Episode 205
Lots of languages divide words into categories, like male and female. How does that happen?
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5 years, 2 months ago
Why Do Languages Have Gender?
Episode 205
Why do so many languages divvy up nouns into seemingly arbitrary categories?
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5 years, 2 months ago
Forgetting Your Roots
Episode 204
Words have a way of rebelling against their etymological parents, acquiring meanings of their own.
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5 years, 3 months ago
Forgetting Your Roots
Episode 204
When the apple falls far from the tree.
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5 years, 3 months ago
Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
Episode 203
That language changes is certain. How quickly or slowly is another matter.
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5 years, 3 months ago
Future English Speaker, Can You Read Me?
Episode 203
At what point will the language we speak now be incomprehensible to our progeny?
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5 years, 3 months ago
Getting Got
Episode 202
The story of how one little verb developed a seemingly endless capacity to absorb new meanings.
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5 years, 4 months ago