lingthusiasm:Episode 93: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq JonesThere are many ways that people perform gender, from clothing and hairstyle to how we talk or carry ourselves....

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episodeSometimes two words are smooshed together in a single act of creativity to fill a lexical gap, like making...

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 89: Connecting with oral cultureFor tens of thousands of years, humans have transmitted long and intricate stories to each other, which we learned directly from...

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 88: No such thing as the oldest languageIt’s easy to find claims that certain languages are old or even the oldest, but which one is actually true? Fortunately,...

lingthusiasm:Lingthusiasm Episode 87: If I were an irrealis episodeLanguage lets us talk about things that aren’t, strictly speaking, entirely real. Sometimes that’s an imaginative object (is a toy...

lingthusiasm:Episode 86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-OrdóñezBasque is a language of Europe which is unrelated to the Indo-European languages...

lingthusiasm:Episode 85: Ergativity delights us When you have a sentence like “I visit them”, the word order and the shape of the words tell you that it means something different from “they visit me”....

lingthusiasm:Episode 84: Look, it’s deixis, an episode about pointing!Pointing creates an invisible line between a part of your body and the thing you’re pointing at. Humans are really good at...

lingthusiasm:Young kids growing up in Guatemala often learn Q’anjob’al, Kaq’chikel, or another Mayan language from their families and communities. But they don’t live next to the kinds of major...

lingthusiasm:Episode 82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentencesLinguists are often interested in comparing several languages or dialects. To make this easier, it’s useful to...