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To Reason Why

Episode 197

How come? What for? The many ways to ask why.

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When Talking to Your Mother-In-Law Is a Minefield

Episode 196

From baby talk to formal varieties, languages around the world offer—or even require—different ways of speaking for different situations.

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5 years, 6 months ago

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When Talking to Your Mother-in-Law Is a Minefield

Episode 196

On codeswitching among family members and relations.

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The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole

Episode 195

Enslaved people developed a hybrid language that sailed from Africa to the Caribbean and—unbelievably—back again.

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5 years, 7 months ago

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The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole

Episode 195

A creole language that boomeranged between two continents.

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This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?

Episode 194

A longstanding mystery of Black English may finally be solved.

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5 years, 7 months ago

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This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?

Episode 194

On Black English and the verb to be.

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5 years, 7 months ago

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When Jews Adapted Spanish

Episode 193

Languages of the Ottoman Empire, inspired by historian Alan Mikhail's new book, God's Shadow.

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5 years, 8 months ago

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When Jews Adapted Spanish

Episode 193

Linguistic inspiration from historian Alan Mikhail’s new book God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World.

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5 years, 8 months ago

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Lots of languages have no dedicated way to indicate later-ness. Somehow life goes on.

Episode 192

Lots of languages have no dedicated way to indicate later-ness. Somehow life goes on.

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5 years, 8 months ago

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