Language is creative! Language is anarchic.
And language refuses to be tamed. But its indomitability may be the key to its power.
A new book by Lane Greene will give language sticklers something to think about. Lane joins us on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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It’s more of our chat with Lane Greene.
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution has an odd comma. Does that change anything? And what does Lane think of apostrophes — can we get rid of them?
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Show notes
2018 CBAA Community Radio Awards Winners Announced | Community Broadcasting Association of Australia
https://www.cbaa.org.au/article/2018-cbaa-community-radio-awards-winners-announced
Vowel but not consonant identity and the very informal English lexicon | Tessier | Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology
https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/article/view/4248/3874
The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity | bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/09/26/426502
LingoJam | Make a Translator Online!
https://lingojam.com/
Talk on the Wild Side – Lane Greene – 9781781258064 – Allen & Unwin – Australia
https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/writing-language/Talk-on-the-Wild-Side-Lane-Greene-9781781258064
Lupyan and Dale: Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0008559
Having fun with phrase structure grammars: Midsomer Murders and Beatles
http://humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2018/04/having-fun-with-phrase-structure.html
Midterm election results: historic wins for Muslim, Native American women – Vox
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/7/18072658/midterm-election-results-historic-wins-muslim-native-american-women
US midterm elections: ‘Gerrymandering’ helped Trump, Republicans
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/how-decadesold-process-called-gerrymandering-slowed-down-the-blue-wave/news-story/8525fd8065d8b25e4bcdbee502b2fef8
The rainbow wave of 2018 – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/08/rainbow-wave/
New Air-Conditioner Absorbs Solar Energy and Blasts Radiation Into Space – D-brief
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/11/09/air-conditioner-energy-saving-space-energy-radiation/
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