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<p>The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod</p>
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Peven Stinker
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Published: September 29, 2025 20:00
Send us a textWe have a few things to say about Pinker.Part of the War on ScienceThe Language InstinctPinker on Race RealismCo-authored paper on overregularizationThe Open Letter to the LSAThe article that Carrie was interviewed for, but not named, about…
Algospeak
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Published: August 11, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Adam Aleksic about his new book, Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language.Bromism and ChatGPTSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social …
A History of Like
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Published: July 14, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Megan C. Reynolds, Dwell magazine editor, about her book, Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word.Putin and RussianSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us…
Serving Language Ideologies
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Published: June 23, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Paulette van der Voet and Martina Terrazzano, PhD students at the University of Umea, about their class called “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”.Top 20 Eurovision songsMalta and EstoniaSupport the…
Rare Tongues
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Published: May 26, 2025 07:00
Send us a textWe talk with Dr Lorna Gibb about her newest book, Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages.Steven Pinker:Harvard Derangement Syndromevs. LSAJews and IQSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us…
The AI Con
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Published: May 5, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Drs Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big…
Enough is Enuf
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Published: April 14, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Gabe Henry about his new book, Enough is enuf: Our failed attempts to make English eezier to spell.Puerto Rico and English as an Official LanguageSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us…
Language Oppression in Tibet
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Published: March 18, 2025 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Gerald Roche, Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, about his new book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet, language oppression, solidarity, China and Tibet. LSA's…
The Italian N-Word
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Published: February 17, 2025 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Massimiliano Canzanella about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy.Asian languages and the LA firesSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social …
matkunsh 7mar
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Published: January 22, 2025 16:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Adam Benkato, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, about Arabic.codeswitching in incarcerationSupport the showContact us: …
Demystifying Language
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Published: December 16, 2024 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Ayala Fader, professor of anthropology at Fordham University, and Dr Mike Mena, Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, about their new project, the Demystifying Language Project, where academics and high…
Fear and Loathing in Politics and Academia
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Published: November 12, 2024 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Leonard Cassuto, Professor of English at Fordham University, about his class called "Literature and Psychology of Disgust," which explores how language evokes emotional responses, particularly disgust, and his book…
Performing the News
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Published: October 14, 2024 21:00
Send us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Elia Powers, Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University, about his book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality.5 Podcasts for Word Nerds NY TimesWhy Does Trump Do That…
How Schools Make Race
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Published: September 23, 2024 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, assistant professor at UCLA in the Departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education, about her book How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America,…
Dogwhistles and Other Fig Leaves
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Published: August 23, 2024 19:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Henderson, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, about his newest book (with Dr Elin Mccready), Signaling without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles.Botanical…
Writing Beyond Writing
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Published: July 15, 2024 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Tim Brookes about his newest book, Writing Beyond Writing, what writing is, his journey to caring about Endangered Alphabets and his favourite scripts.Nuxalk albumRed BubbleInsufferable TwitsSupport the showContact…
Language City
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Published: June 24, 2024 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Ross Perlin, co-director of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York.Language Map of NYCASL at…
Uneffing the Binary
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Published: May 14, 2024 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Drs Kris Aric Knisley and Eric Louis Russell about their book Redoing linguistic worlds: Unmaking gender binaries, remaking gender pluralities, gender, critical linguistics, trans linguistics, and uneffing all…
Gorsh! We All Have Accents
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Published: April 15, 2024 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Drs Rusty Barrett, Professor of Linguistics, Jennifer Cramer, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, and Kevin B. McGowan, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the University of…
The Funnest Episode
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Published: March 12, 2024 17:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Curzan about her book Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words.Trump's brainSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social …
Braillians
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Published: February 12, 2024 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Sheri Wells-Jensen, Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, about her chapter Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Aliens in the new book Xenolinguistics:…
Linguistic Discrimination against Uyghurs in China
Published: January 16, 2024 20:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Lee Moore about the linguistic situation in China, particularly the hostile environment towards Uyghurs.He is also the author of "A dyslexic learning Chinese".WOTY23Support the showContact us: Threads us…
Werthwhile Language
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Published: December 11, 2023 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Suzanne Wertheim about her book, The Inclusive Language Field Guide: 6 Simple Principles for Avoiding Painful Mistakes and Communicating Respectfully.pentl'atch named a living languageSupport the showContact us: …
Don't Drown the Cat
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Published: November 20, 2023 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Rebecca Roache about her book, For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun. Great British Bake OffSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email…
We All Country
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Published: October 16, 2023 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Bryce McCleary, Lecturer in Linguistics at Rice University, about his paper “'We All Country': Region, Place, and Community Language among Oklahoma City Drag Performers".Australia referendumSupport the…
Shuffling off This Mortal Coil
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Published: September 11, 2023 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Poppy Mardall, the founder and chair of Poppy’s, about the Dead Good Words campaign around dehumanizing and euphemistic language about death.Calm History podcastWest Virginia University shutting down World…
Talking Tamarra
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Published: August 3, 2023 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Felicity Meakins, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland, and Briony Barr, a visual-conceptual-teaching artist and co-founder of the Scale Free Network, about their book Tamarra: A Story of…
Mental Fries/Vocal Floss
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Published: July 10, 2023 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Erin McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief of Mental Floss, about her new book (with the Mental Floss team), Mental Floss Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising…
A Braille as Old as Time
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Published: June 20, 2023 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille.…
Like, Literally, Dude
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Published: May 15, 2023 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Valerie Fridland about her new book, Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English, how to pronounce Nevada, and all things language.Charles Boberg's article on 'foreign (a)'Words with no English…
Figgy, Gills and Bobby
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Published: April 17, 2023 07:00
Send us a textDr. Bob Kennedy is back! Carrie and Megan pick his brain about all things language in sports. He shoots, he scores!Intro discussion:video Vox articleSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social…
Don't be an *, be a 🐈
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Published: March 13, 2023 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.Whale vocal fry:nprwaponytimesBackground on phonic lipsSupport the showContact us: Threads us…
The People's Tongue
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Published: February 13, 2023 19:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Ilan Stavans about his new book, The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at…
The Freeze Peach Paradox
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Published: January 30, 2023 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr. Dennis Baron, Emeritus Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about his newest book You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech.What do moos mean?Support the…
Dr G Squared
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Published: December 12, 2022 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Geneva Smitherman/Dr. G about her book My Soul Look Back In Wonder, narrative essays about her race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and…
Bonus WOTY 2022
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Published: December 9, 2022 05:00
Send us a textExample bonus episode from November 2022.We talk WOTY22!Full episode coming soonSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep…
Brasse pa lamèrd
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Published: November 7, 2022 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana. Collins' WOTY22A…
Cruz Control
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Published: October 17, 2022 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right.Check out The…
Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness
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Published: September 19, 2022 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness.Want to edit…
The Duct Tape of Language
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Published: August 29, 2022 07:00
Send us a textYou asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here.Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things. Want to edit video or audio? Try…
Bulls, apes, bats and chickens
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Published: August 8, 2022 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t".Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at…
The Rickford Files
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Published: July 11, 2022 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up in Guyana, moving to the United States, and his love of linguistics and Black Talk.Fifth…
Make Grammar Cool Again
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Published: June 13, 2022 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Drs Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited volume Questions about Language: What Everybody Should Know…
Reawakening Pentlatch
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Published: May 30, 2022 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island.This…
John Mary Bill Sue
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Published: May 16, 2022 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences.…
Tongues
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Published: May 2, 2022 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber College, and Ayelet Tsabari, who teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative…
FindingFive
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Published: April 4, 2022 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr. Noah Nelson, trustee of FindingFive. FindingFive is a tech nonprofit that enables academic researchers to create and run online behavioral research studies in the cloud! This is a sponsored episode, where you…
Hyper Specific Genres We Love
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Published: April 1, 2022 07:00
Send us a textRenee and Natalia are back with a conversation about some of the books they love that fall into super niche genres. For example, Natalia has an entire bookshelf dedicated to books about bananas and Renee will never say no to a thriller with…
Save the Saguaro 🌵
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Published: March 28, 2022 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessica Hernandez, a transnational Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest, about her new book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous…
Myanmar? I Hardly Know Her!
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Published: February 21, 2022 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Katie Craig about Myanmar/Burma, the languages spoken there and her organization Myanmar Indigenous Community Partners, which works with local communities to develop and celebrate these languages – and the people…
Employing Linguistics
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Published: February 14, 2022 08:00
Send us a textIn this special (kind of bonus) episode, Dr Anna Marie Trester and Sophie Henry talk about Anna Marie's new book Employing Linguistics: Thinking and Talking about Careers for Linguists.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we…
Chocolate City
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Published: January 31, 2022 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Jessi Grieser about her new book, The Black Side of the River, DC, Tennessee and the way Black residents of Anacostia talk about their neighborhood and themselves.Galician songs here and hereWe're an indie…
Galicious
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Published: January 10, 2022 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Enrico Torre about Galician and other languages spoken in Spain and why they matter.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation…
Mara Effin Wilson
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Published: December 6, 2021 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Mara Wilson about her voice, her neurodivergence, and the IPA.Transcript available here.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation…
All Your Meme Are Belong To Us
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Published: November 8, 2021 22:48
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Sylvia Sierra about her new book, Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation, intertextuality, memes, and the tropes embedded in internet memes.Transcript available…
Everybody Wants to Rural the World
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Published: October 25, 2021 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King (among others), about his YA books set in Appalachia, why he doesn't use eye-dialect, and why representation matters.Transcript available hereWe're an indie podcast with…
Snap, Crackle, K-Pop
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Published: September 27, 2021 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Joyhanna Yoo Garza, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard, about K-Pop, semiotics, cultural appropriation, and Ali Wong. (Buy her book here.)We also discuss International Week of Deaf…
The Language of Love
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Published: August 31, 2021 17:57
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Natalyn Daniels, Clery Liaison at the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Rose Wilkerson, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, about growing up on the Navajo Nation, transferring to Berkeley…
Me Myself and AI
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Published: August 2, 2021 17:20
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr. Emily M. Bender, Professor of Linguistics at University of Washington, about her paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", Google firing Drs. Timnit Gebru and Margaret…
Maintenance Baes
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Published: July 12, 2021 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with the cohosts of Maintenance Phase, Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon, about wellness, diet culture, fatness and how not to be an asshole to fat people.Buy Aubrey's book.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited…
I Ain't Messing With You
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Published: June 28, 2021 16:12
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly…
Cult Classic
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Published: June 14, 2021 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to entice and keep followers and why cults fascinate us.Check out her podcast Sounds Like a…
Accent-uate Your Performance
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Published: May 31, 2021 17:04
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer, dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors.Check out some of his Wired videos (featuring Megan!) here,…
Hypocritical Oath
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Published: May 17, 2021 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr. Elena Costello Tzintzun, a newly-minted PhD, about the importance of using heritage language learners as healthcare interpreters and healthcare accessibility.Philly episodeTranscriptWe're an indie podcast with…
Bean Discourse
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Published: April 28, 2021 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Jaya Saxena, Staff Writer at Eater about her piece The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment and the way we talk about food and why it matters.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use…
Jamaalapalooza
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Published: April 12, 2021 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Jamaal Muwwakkil, PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Santa Barbara about African American English and racial justice in university and community college.#lingcomm21#lingfestTranscriptWe're an indie…
I Have So Many Questions
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Published: April 1, 2021 07:00
Send us a textApril Fools! But it's the good kind of prank. Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a similar show to help grow our audiences by introducing people to shows they might not have heard…
Standardized Language Ideology
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Published: March 29, 2021 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, about their new edited volume,…
Use People's Pronouns
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Published: February 28, 2021 23:54
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation, indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish non-binary morphemes.On the word wet marketÁrtemis's Medium article on…
The Moist Towelette of Podcasts
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Published: January 31, 2021 08:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about lexicography, her experience on the History of Swear Words, and her favourite swear word.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really…
Abso-2020-lutely
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Published: December 28, 2020 08:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan discuss the nominations and winners of the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2020.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring…
Racists and Transphobes and Scaredy Cats, oh my
Published: November 30, 2020 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan discuss Yamiche Alcindor's "ungrammatical sentences" and Latinx/Latine supposedly ruining Dem's electoral chances.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a…
Trumped Up Masculinity
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Published: October 27, 2020 04:55
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Norma Mendoza-Denton Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, about her new edited book, Language in the Trump Era.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can…
Sounds about White
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Published: September 28, 2020 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, EdD student and adult educator about whiteness in language education. TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited…
Teach Your Children about Linguistic Discrimination
Published: September 3, 2020 21:01
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Katherine D. Kinzler, Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, about her new book How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—And What It Says About You.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited…
Dismantling White Supremacy
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Published: August 17, 2020 23:31
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Anne Charity Hudley, Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about how to dismantle white supremacy in linguistics.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we…
Third Time's the Charm
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Published: August 3, 2020 07:00
Send us a textIt's the Fries' 3 year anniversary! Carrie and Megan respond to listener voicemails about linguistic discrimination. TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly…
Creating Puentes
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Published: July 18, 2020 21:41
Send us a textMegan and Carrie discuss the letter to the LSA and then talk with Dr. Marie-Eve Monette, founder of Creating Puentes, about the importance of translation and interpretation services and her life as a French speaker living in the…
Reid between the Lines
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Published: June 15, 2020 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr Marianne Mason, newly minted Associate Professor of Spanish at James Madison University, about police interviews, the Reid technique, and linguistics and the law.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited…
Unconscious Bias Project
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Published: May 12, 2020 16:21
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr. Linet Mera, co-founder of the Unconscious Bias Project, and Lucretia Iruela, consultant to the UBP, about unconscious bias and the Project.You can help the UBP here (fundraiser on May 14)New COVID online…
Chaos and Order
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Published: April 28, 2020 19:22
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with David Bowles, a Mexican-American author from south Texas who teaches at the University of Texas Río Grande Valley, about Classical Nahuatl and the culture of the people who spoke it.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast…
Read between the Vines
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Published: April 13, 2020 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Kendra Calhoun, graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about anti-hegemonic racial humor on Vine.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us…
Bilingualism is. It just is.
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Published: March 31, 2020 00:37
Send us a textMegan talks with Dr. Nelson Flores, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Jonathan Rosa, Associate Professor at Stanford, about the bilingual brain, semilingualism, and why people keep confusing them for the…
Linguistic Injustice
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Published: March 16, 2020 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Sharese King, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, about Rachel Jeantel and her treatment by the justice system and the media during the George Zimmerman trial.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with…
What's in a Name?
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Published: March 2, 2020 16:52
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr. Laurel MacKenzie, Assistant Professor at NYU, about all things names.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring donation at…
Cheaper than Therapy
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Published: February 17, 2020 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie chat with Dr Anna Marie Trester, founder of Career Linguist, about the importance of linguistics to the workplace. (Employers: you need us!)TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your…
Wikitongues
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Published: February 3, 2020 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Daniel Bogre Udell, cofounder of Wikitongues, about language documentation and revitalization.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly…
Practice Makes Easier
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Published: January 13, 2020 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Melissa Baese-Berk, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, about native and non-native English and the different levels of effort required to understand each.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with…
Irish isn't Just Decorative
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Published: December 30, 2019 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Gearoidin McEvoy, PhD Candidate in Minority Language Rights Law at Dublin City University and cohost of Motherfoclóir, about Irish and the law.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use…
Living Languages
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Published: December 9, 2019 16:15
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Ebony Joachim, at Living Languages, who runs professional development courses for Indigenous communities in Australia, about her work, language revitalization and documentation, and the languages of Australia.We're an…
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
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Published: November 25, 2019 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Zachary Jaggers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oregon, about differences in pronunciation of borrowings and what they tell us (or don't tell us) about people's political leanings.TranscriptWe're…
Putting the Antics in SemAntics
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Published: November 16, 2019 21:32
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Andrew McKenzie, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, about Kiowa (Cauijoga), language documentation and the importance of semantic documentation.TranscriptWe're an indie podcast with limited resources,…
Be Good and Be Kind
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Published: November 16, 2019 21:30
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr. Ake Nicholas, Lecturer at Massey University, about Cook Islands Maori, language documentation and the importance of teachers in language revitalization.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could…
The (In)Visibility of Disability
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Published: October 7, 2019 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Alice Wong, the founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project, and Nina G, comedian, professional speaker, storyteller, writer and educator, about their disabilities and why the voices of…
The Rhetoric of Xenophobia
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Published: September 23, 2019 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Ben Zimmer about the rhetoric of "infestation" and "invasion" and the history of their use.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a monthly recurring…
Everybody Hertz
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Published: September 9, 2019 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Lisa Davidson, Professor of Linguistics at New York University, about the terms used by journalists to describe language and accents (and why they are so often problematic).We're an indie podcast with limited…
Your Language Sounds like it has a Drawbridge
Published: August 26, 2019 07:00
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk to Dr Sadie Ryan, host of the Accentricity podcast, the podcast that examines the eccentricities of language and identity and how the way we talk connects to who we are.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so…
To Be or Not to Be (Hamlet)
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Published: August 12, 2019 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Duane Daniels, actor, acting coach, director and producer, aka Principal Van Clemmons on Veronica Mars, about acting, singing and his new book You are Not Really Hamlet: And Everybody Knows It.We're an indie podcast…
Megan Squared
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Published: July 29, 2019 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Megan Strom, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, about the importance of interpretation services in the United States.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use…
Lal-apalooza
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Published: July 15, 2019 07:00
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk to Dr Lal Zimman, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, about trans voices and vocal fry.We're an indie podcast with limited resources, so we could really use your support. You can set up a…
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