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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

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The Funnest Episode

The Funnest Episode

2024-03-1257:15

Megan 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 Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Braillians

Braillians

2024-02-1247:01

Carrie 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: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language, blind aliens, how languages can be, and her appreciation of the movie Arrival.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Werthwhile Language

Werthwhile Language

2023-12-1154:23

Carrie 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: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Don't Drown the Cat

Don't Drown the Cat

2023-11-2058:55

Megan 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 Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
We All Country

We All Country

2023-10-1601:00:31

Carrie 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 showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 LanguagesWVU FinancesJonah KatzSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Talking Tamarra

Talking Tamarra

2023-08-0346:06

Carrie 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 Termites on Gurindji Territory, why termites are important to Gurindji people, and why they wanted to work on this project.Ken knows how to fListen on PoduramaSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 EtymologiesSilver Lining of pandemic Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Robert Englebretson, Associate Professor in Linguistics at Rice University, about all things braille. Sources:https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000061http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/ling327syllabus.pdfhttps://news2.rice.edu/2019/07/23/rice-study-seeks-to-improve-braille-literacy-2/Kleege, Georgina. 2006. "Visible braille/invisible blindness." Journal  of Visual Culture, 5 (2): 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412906066909https://pbs.jhu.edu/directory/marina-bedny/Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Like, Literally, Dude

Like, Literally, Dude

2023-05-1501:01:08

Megan 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 equivalentsSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Figgy, Gills and Bobby

Figgy, Gills and Bobby

2023-04-1757:42

Dr. 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 Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
The People's Tongue

The People's Tongue

2023-02-1356:37

Carrie 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 Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Dr G Squared

Dr G Squared

2022-12-1256:24

Carrie 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 70s.Quebec economic immigrantsSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Bonus WOTY 2022

Bonus WOTY 2022

2022-12-0916:52

Example bonus episode from November 2022.We talk WOTY22!Full episode coming soonSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Brasse pa lamèrd

Brasse pa lamèrd

2022-11-0701:02:43

Megan 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 discussion of Ukrainian to English transliterationDictionary.com's new wordsLearn Kouri-ViniSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Cruz Control

Cruz Control

2022-10-1758:01

Carrie 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 Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the introThe Authority GapMorality of AbortionSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
Megan 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 video or audio? Try Descript:https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3gSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Tweet us @VocalFries Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
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Comments (5)

Jacqueline Albin

This is a really informative, fun podcast that I've been binging all week. Though I admit, it's made me kind of hyper-aware of how I talk haha. Anyway, glad I found it!

Jan 29th
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Margaret Gardner

dinnae be an arse hole!

Aug 29th
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Lauren Shaw

You guys are fantastic! I've been looking for a podcast on this topic for ages, and I'm really enjoying yours so far. Good mix of topics and v accessible discussion!

Dec 24th
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