Day 1 of #ThatsMyJam!
Blueberry & Maple Syrup, with Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the relationship between the different varieties of English here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/20-speaking-canadian-and-australian-english-in-a-british-american-binary
Day 2 of #ThatsMyJam!
Fig & Cardamom, with Why do we gesture when we talk?
You can watch us get enthusiastic about gesture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8dHtr7uLHs
And listen here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/30-why-do-we-gesture-when-we-talk
Day 3 of #ThatsMyJam!
Plum, Peach, & Anise, with Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about borrowing and loanwords here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get-borrowed-across-languages
Day 4 of #ThatsMyJam!
Cherry & Violet, with Colour words around the world and inside your brain
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about what linguistic typology and psycholinguistics can tell us about colour words here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/05-colour-words-around-the-world-and-inside-your-brain
Day 5 of #ThatsMyJam!
Apple, Caramel & Cinnamon, with Word Magic
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how the word magic systems are set up differently in three recent fantasy books we like here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/80-word-magic
Day 6 of #ThatsMyJam!
Apricot & Lavender, with Translating the untranslatable
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how we translate different kinds of meaning here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/18-translating-the-untranslatable
Day 7 of #ThatsMyJam!
Coffee Caramel, with The linguistic map is not the linguistic territory
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the complications that come with trying to map languages and dialects here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/73-the-linguistic-map-is-not-the-linguistic-territory
Day 8 of #ThatsMyJam!
White Nectarine, Peach, & Lemon Verbena, with What If Linguistics - Absurd Hypothetical Questions with Randall Munroe of xkcd
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about absurd hypothetical linguistic questions with guest Randall Munroe here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/72-what-if-linguistics
Day 9 of #ThatsMyJam!
Vanilla Caramel, with Kids these days aren’t ruining language
You can listen to us explore how far back we can trace complaints about the language of Kids These Days, and celebrate linguistic innovation while it’s happening, here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/07-kids-these-days-arent-ruining-language
Day 10 of #ThatsMyJam!
Blueberry & Lychee with Rose, with No such thing as the oldest language
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about what people mean when we talk about a language as being old here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/88-no-such-thing-as-the-oldest-language
Day 11 of #ThatsMyJam!
Pineapple, Rum, & Vanilla, with A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/100-a-hundred-reasons-to-be-enthusiastic-about-linguistics
Day 12 of #ThatsMyJam!
Raspberry Redcurrant, with Word order, we love
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how languages put words in a particular order here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/66-word-order-we-love
Day 13 of #ThatsMyJam!
Apricot with Honey, with The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the process of figuring out Proto-Indo-European with Dr. Danny Bate here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/110-the-history-of-the-history-of-indo-european-interview-with-danny-bate
Day 14 of #ThatsMyJam!
Mango & Ginger, with A hand-y guide to gesture
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about Lauren’s new book, Gesture: A Slim Guide from Oxford University Press here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/103-a-hand-y-guide-to-gesture
Day 15 of #ThatsMyJam!
Orange, Guava, & Lime, with Urban Multilingualism
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the hundreds of languages many cities are host to that don't show up on official records here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/107-urban-multilingualism
Day 16 of #ThatsMyJam!
Orange, Yuzu, & Grapefruit, with Writing is a technology
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about writing systems, and how the structure and history of a language contribute to the massively multigenerational project of devising them, here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/52-writing-is-a-technology
Day 17 of #ThatsMyJam!
Pear, Clementine, & Cinnamon, with Emoji are Gesture Because Internet
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about emoji, and how gesture studies can bring us to a better understanding of these new digital pictures, here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/34-emoji-are-gesture-because-internet
Day 18 of #ThatsMyJam!
Cherry & Pink Peppercorn, with Real swear words vs pseudo swears
You can listen to our extra special bonus edition from the vault, where we get enthusiastic about our first sweary episode, for free on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/131301144
Day 19 of #ThatsMyJam!
Italian Mandarins, with The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the science and fiction of linguistic relativity, popularly known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/102-the-science-and-fiction-of-sapir-whorf
Day 20 of #ThatsMyJam!
Peach, Blackcurrant, & Sichuan Peppercorn, with Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!!
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about surprise here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/111-whoa-a-surprise-episode-for-me
Day 21 of #ThatsMyJam!
Strawberry & Passionfruit, with Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the layers of language that are involved in emotions here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/75-love-and-fury-at-the-linguistics-of-emotions
Day 23 of #ThatsMyJam!
Raspberry & Lychee, with On the nose - How the nose shapes language
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about the nose here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/109-on-the-nose-how-the-nose-shapes-language
Day 23 of #ThatsMyJam!
Rhubarb & Strawberry, with You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how we come to know things, and how different languages let us talk about this here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/32-you-heard-about-it-but-i-was-there-evidentiality
Day 25 of #ThatsMyJam!
Salted Caramel, with What words sound spiky across languages? Interview with Suzy Styles
You can listen to us get enthusiastic about how language interacts with your other senses like vision and touch here: https://soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/21-what-words-sound-spiky-across-languages-interview-with-suzy-styles
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