Liveshow about backchannelling next week - Mark your calendars!

We’re doing a virtual liveshow in exactly one week! We'll be getting enthusiastic about the linguistics of the words and sounds and gestures (and emoji!) that people make to show that they’re listening, such as “uh huh” and 👍 and nodding, all the while giving you the chance to backchannel to us and each other in the chat alongside (so meta). 

The liveshow is on April 24, 2021 at UTC 22:00 (that's 6:00pm in EDT, 8:00am April 25th in AEST, or check the datestamp on this post and add exactly one week) and you already have access to it as a patron of Lingthusiasm! Live captions in English will be provided. 

We'll be sending you a livestream link shortly before the show, and if you want to use this as an opportunity to bring along a friend or two (perhaps a good gateway into the Extended Lingthusiasm Universe?), you're welcome to share the stream in a limited way with one or two people in private message. (If you have tons of friends who are Lingthusiasm fans, please encourage them to become patrons at any level to join the liveshow!)

The world is inconveniently round sometimes, so if you can't make it for the live version of the show, you'll also be able to watch it in the private video stream later, and we'll put up an edited audio-only version later as a bonus episode for patrons who prefer to listen via RSS. (You'll just obviously miss out on the "talking with other fans in the chat during the show" and "asking us questions for the Q&A section" parts of the experience - but feel free to go to the Lingthusiasm Discord if you want to chat at other times.)

The Lingthusiasm liveshow is part of LingFest, a fringe-festival-like programme of independently organized online linguistics events for the week of April 24 to May 2. See the LingFest website for details on more fun linguistics events to attend.