British and American English have always had a love-hate relationship.
British people (and Australians) often blame Americans for somehow tarnishing the language, and they fret about creeping Americanism. But people are terrible at identifying what the Americanisms actually are. How …
Kylie notices interesting things on Twitter, and when she does, she tags them: One for @talkrtr
So today we’re poring over them. Is lab meat ‘meat’? How do you pronounce ‘scone’? What happens when we use dehumanising language?
Linguist Daniel …
We get mail. From you. And today, we’re answering your questions.
How has jazz influenced our language? And what if you like language diversity, but you’re not too keen on how it’s used?
Daniel and Kylie answer them all on …
That study about language looks interesting. Can you trust the results?
Lots of researchers are using big data to discover amazing things about language. But big data can bring big trouble if researchers don’t look out for some common traps. …
When we got numbers, things really started to happen.
How do other languages handle numbers? How do pre-linguistic children conceptualise them? And how did the development of numbers influence our development as humans?
We’re talking to anthropological linguist and author …
Grammar Day is coming soon. Which rules can you safely ignore?
Is it okay for nouns to become verbs and vice versa? What’s wrong with passive voice? And how can you have a healthy grammar outlook?
Daniel, Ben, …
How do we keep mother languages alive?
Governments, organisations, and the public are starting to recognise the importance of maintaining home languages as a way of preserving language diversity. But how do we do this? Where are we falling short?…
Boiling with rage. A warm embrace. A cool time in a hot town.
How do we think about heat and cold, and how does this work its way into language? And does this have anything to do with what the …
It’s Word of the Year season again, and Daniel was repping Talk the Talk at the year’s biggest vote.
But controversy surrounds the WotY. Is it too white, too old, and too male? How can this be helped?
Daniel regales …
Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, a YouTube channel originally focusing on games and moved to science education – a series that now has over 18 million subscribers and 1.2 billion views after 10 years. His videos blend …
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