WOTY2025
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk about the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. TACO Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.socialEmail u...
19 Jan 35min
By Hand
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, By Hand, about the importance of handwriting. NBER report Current Affairs WOTY: 6-7 rage baitparasocialvibe codingAI slo...
15 Dec 20251h 8min
Trapped in Makaton
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly Sara Novič's article about it. Support the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @v...
28 Nov 202536min
Scary Words for a Scary World
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent. facsismeldritchghostvampireSupport the show Contact us: Threads us @vocalfriespodBluesky us @vocalfriespod.b...
31 Okt 202530min
Peven Stinker
Send us Fan Mail We have a few things to say about Pinker. Part of the War on ScienceThe Language InstinctPinker on Race RealismCo-authored paper on overregularizationThe Open Letter to the LSAThe art...
29 Sep 202547min
A History of Like
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word. Putin and RussianSupport the ...
14 Juli 202558min
Serving Language Ideologies
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano, PhD students at the University of Umea, about their class called “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”...
23 Juni 202551min
Rare Tongues
Send us Fan Mail We talk with Dr Lorna Gibb about her newest book, Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages. Steven Pinker: Harvard Derangement Syndromevs. LSAJews and IQSupport the show C...
26 Maj 202539min
