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Episode 16
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Our Dying Words
Episode 16
Should we care when a language dies?
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13 years, 8 months ago
Then Is Now, Now and Then
Episode 15
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present.
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13 years, 9 months ago
Then Is Now, Now and Then
Episode 15
The narrative mastery of Seinfeld's Kramer: talking about the past in the present tense.
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13 years, 9 months ago
By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Episode 14
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry.
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13 years, 9 months ago
By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Episode 14
How we know L. Frank Baum didn't write the 15th Oz book — the surprising way mathematicians can determine authorship.
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13 years, 9 months ago
Capturing the Past
Episode 13
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change.
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13 years, 9 months ago
Capturing the Past
Episode 13
“Lord Grantham, Don Draper’s on Hold”: The algorithm that finds anachronisms in Downton Abbey, Mad Men and Edith Wharton.
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The Eloquence of Plain English
Episode 12
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address.
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13 years, 10 months ago
The Eloquence of Plain English
Episode 12
Was Honest Abe a Poet? How Lincoln’s speaking style evolved from overly ornate to the brilliant simplicity of Gettysburg.
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13 years, 10 months ago