What makes words good? You won't find answers to that here, but you will learn about first contact, verbose sci-fi, and the challenges of monolingual field situations (we know you've been aching to learn more about monolingual field situations).

This episode, we're reading The Story Of Your Life by Ted Chiang and Embassytown by China Mieville, and joined by language researcher Tiger Webb and comedian/reformed linguist Maddie Parker.

Now we'll use the power of *~ words and language ~ * to remind you to rate and subscribe because it gladdens our hearts: please rate and subscribe, it gladdens our hearts.