Time to get to this Mailbag! Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'? When people write the date...
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Time to get to this Mailbag! Why are flip-flops called 'thongs'? When people write the date...
58:03
For our first episode, we asked some of our linguist and lingo-pod friends what their favourite...
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395: Outed or Misgendered (with Cedar Brown)
"What's your pronoun?" Good question. Many people would like to be more supportive of trans and...
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394: What’s Your Pronoun? (with Dennis Baron)
It's been a big year for singular they, but there's more than one pronoun in town. What...
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Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They're the ones where you have to...
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392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)
Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view. So which voices are getting...
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It's Word of the Year time, and there are more words than ever before. We bring you the results...
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390: Words of the Week of the Year 2019 (Live Q&A)
Just about every week, we bring you the Words of the Week. Which word from 2019 will listeners...
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Again we open the Mailbag and answer our listeners' questions. What do lisps sound like in...
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388: Lies, All Lies (with Georgina Heydon, Heather Wilson, and Amanda Hamilton-Hollaway)
Can you tell when someone is lying? You may think you have a sense about this, but the answers...
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387: The Language of Emotion (with Maïa Ponsonnet)
Language and culture are tightly bound. Or are they? Many speakers of the Australian language...
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386: English Needs These Idioms (Live Q&A)
If you speak a language besides English, you know that there are some idioms that English is...
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385: You Look Like a Thing (with Janelle Shane)
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and that freaks some people out. But the real problem is...
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Welcome to our mailbag, where all the really great questions come from. - Why do we say "You're...
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383: Decolonising the Archive (with Emma Murphy and Caroline Hughes)
Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives. So now...
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382: There's No Enhance Button (with Helen Fraser)
We hear what we expect to hear. That's a problem in court, where covert audio recordings are...
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What words do you constantly misspell? Are there any that make you stop and think every time you...
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380: Emoji Innovations (Live Q&A)
For this episode, we want to hear about the emoji usages or combinations that are unique to you...
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379: Indigenous Signed Languages (with Rodney Adams and Steph Tisdell)
Indigenous languages matter. They're part of Australia's cultural heritage, and they're a way for...
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378: Bugger All (with Isabelle Burke)
You might do nothing. You might do zilch. But if you do bugger all, you're really doing the...
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