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Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Update?

Episode 91

John McWhorter talks with author Jack Lynch about the sacrilege of modified Shakespeare. 

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Should Shakespeare Get a Modern English Makeover?

Episode 91

A conversation with Jack Lynch, author of Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard.

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Are Emoji a Language?

Episode 90

Gretchen McCulloch talks to John McWhorter about the big meaning behind our favorite little pictograms.

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Are Emoji a Language?

Episode 90

A conversation with Gretchen McCulloch on the big meaning behind our favorite little pictograms.

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Finding Life in a Dead Language

Episode 89

Ann Patty, author of "Living With a Dead Language: My Romance With Latin," talks about her transformative experience of learning Latin.

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Finding Life in a Dead Language

Episode 89

A conversation with Ann Patty, author of Living With a Dead Language, about her transformative experience learning Latin.

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9 years, 8 months ago

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Rules Are Made to Be Spoken

Episode 88

Sali Tagliamonte, author of Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics, talks about the underlying disorder of the English Language.

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9 years, 9 months ago

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Rules Are Made to Be Spoken

Episode 88

A conversation with Sali Tagliamonte, author of Making Waves: The Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics.

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9 years, 9 months ago

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English Spelling is a Mess. It's Time to Reform It.

Episode 87

Etymologist and poet Anatoly Liberman says that English is one of the most difficult languages to spell. But we can change that.

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9 years, 9 months ago

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Should We Make English Spelling Easier?

Episode 87

A conversation with etymologist Anatoly Liberman, author of Word Origins and How We Know Them.

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9 years, 9 months ago

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