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    In the last Food Season episode of the current batch, we get into the language of restaurant service - specifically those terms that give some of us fiery indigestion, like “Enjoy!” or “Are you still working on that?” Restaurant psychologist St
    Ever misspelled a word or committed a typo? It wasn’t your fault; you were demonically possessed. Ian Chillag from Everything is Alive podcast introduces us to Titivillus, the typo demon.Find out more about this episode at theallusionist.org/
    When you’re watching a fantasy or science fiction show, and the characters are speaking a language that does not exist in this world but sounds like it could - that doesn’t happen by accident, or improvisation. A lot - a LOT! - of work goes int
    It’s August 2007. Lauren Marks is a 27-year-old actor and a PhD student, spending the month directing a play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She’s in a bar, standing onstage, performing a karaoke duet of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’…and then
    WARNING: this episode contains lots of swearing and words which some of you may find offensive. If, however, you love offensive words, you will enjoy this episode, which is all about how the C-word doesn’t deserve to be the pariah of cusses.Vi
    There are many synonyms for ‘underwear’. There are many synonyms for the body parts you keep in your underwear. But there’s only one word for ‘bra’.Visit http://theallusionist.org/bras to find out more about this episode. Tweet @allusionist
    In late 2014, China announced it was to ban puns. Helen Zaltzman wishes she could ban puns in her own family.Warning: this episode features some hideous incidences of wordplay.Visit http://theallusionist.org/puns to find out more about this
    In 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 could
    Carrie 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 podcast
    Megan 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 a
    Carrie 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 a
    Megan 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 hereWe're
    Carrie 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 limited
    Carrie 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 Peo
    Carrie 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 Mitch

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