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August 08, 2017 New Life for Dying Languages
The Language Conservancy's Wil Meya discusses the effort to revive Native American languages.
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38 min
July 25, 2017 In the Negative
John McWhorter on the history and evolution of no and not.
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33 min
July 11, 2017 Why Do Languages Have Contractions?
John McWhorter explains why we love shrinkage.
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37 min
June 27, 2017 The Incredible Lightness of Being
John McWhorter considers the eccentric irregularity of the verb to be.
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30 min
June 13, 2017 Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?
John McWhorter interrupts the hosts of Unorthodox to discuss hallmarks and stereotypes of Jewish communication style.

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39 min
May 30, 2017 Mining Graffiti for Slang
John McWhorter talks to Ben Zimmer about the Vietnam Graffiti Project and other slangy topics.
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33 min
May 16, 2017 That's Not a Word, Is It?
John McWhorter discusses the near-futile impulse to determine what is, and what is not, a word.
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32 min
May 02, 2017 The Language of Female Friendships
John McWhorter discusses communication styles with linguist Deborah Tannen, author of You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships.
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37 min
April 18, 2017 The Euphemism Treadmill
John McWhorter on the evolution from "crippled" to "handicapped" to "differently abled" and why no such term is likely to stick around long.
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28 min
April 04, 2017 Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton
John McWhorter talks to linguist Neal Whitman about the mash-up of hey and yo.
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32 min

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