For the Love of Language

Executive Order 14224 recently designated English the official language of the U.S.. We discuss what this actually means.

Why do you speak differently than your grandma?

Special guest Liam Connerly, an expert in Latin and Greek, talks with us about education and etymology! 

Listen to Liam's podcast, Latin in Layman's - A Rhetoric Revolution here!

How names become words with their own meanings. How brands die and Karen becomes the person you don't want to be.

How do we imply things that others can infer? How do we create implicatures? We discuss the Gricean Maxims of quality, quantity, relation, and manner.

Straw men, slippery slopes, ad hominem and more. How do people use twisted logic?

We reference the logical fallacies from:

Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html

Grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/rhetorical-devices/logical-fallacies/ 

We talk about emotional vs logical arguments, how syllogisms work, and how to convince your friends that the sky is orange.

We dive into the pros and cons of audiobooks and narration, with a significant tangent into the importance of human connection.

We discuss some of the different types of gaslighting.

If you need help, reach out to your emergency services or the Domestic Violence Hotline at https://www.thehotline.org/ or by calling (800) 799-7233.

We discuss compound questions, leading questions, and some of the differences in how questions are formed between different languages and cultures.