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Bonus 22: Q&A about old words, ears, Australian English, and more (with optional video version!)

Added 2018-12-07 00:14:03 +0000 UTC

Thank you for sending in all your great questions for this special bonus Q&A episode!

We answer your questions about linguistics games, very old words, using video to do linguistic research, and what would happen if your ears were a different shape. We also give you a peak behind the scenes, answering questions about how the liveshows went (you'll be able to listen to the recording early in the new year), what Gretchen's learned about Australian English, and what we've got planned for 2019.

We also decided to use this bonus episode as a practice run for our upcoming special video episode about gesture by recording it as a video at the same time, since we're both in Melbourne at the moment!

You can still listen to it like a normal audio episode, or you can also check it out in video form at this unlisted link for patrons.

Links:

Gretchen's thread about being a Canadian in Australia
Language documentation and the ethics of video (academic article by Lauren)
Dialect game
IPA Uno and Battleships
IPA Scrabble
Linguists Against Humanity
LTAG
Sethian
Heaven's Vault
Sleeping Furiously
Correlation of language change and population (article)
But the story is more complicated (article)
Proto-Indo-European vocabulary (Wikipedia)
Fiat Lex podcast
Word for Word podcast
Kory Stamper's blog
Jane Solomon's blog
Lingthusiasm Episode 8: People who make dictionaries
The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower
People with bigger ears don't hear better (How Stuff Works)
Experimenting at home with different size ears (Scientific American)
How your ears shape your hearing (NYT)

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript is available for this episode as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page. Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All ThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our audio producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial manager is Emily Gref, and our editorial producers are Sarah Dopeirala and A.E. Prevost. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.