If you’re at a park in New York City, you may see someone at a table offering free grammar advice.

That person is writer Ellen Jovin, and she dispenses wisdom from her Grammar Table. What motivates her to do this? What questions does she get? And how does the team stack up to her knowledge?

Ellen joins us on this episode of Talk the Talk.

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Promo

TtT promo 2019-06-25 with Teri Campbell: Grammar Table

There’s lots of ways to do English, and Daniel gets Teri‘s view, with the help of a few polls from Ellen Jovin’s @grammartable Twitter feed. 

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Indigenous Australian Word of the Week (IA-WoW): Winangala

In honour of the UN declaring 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages, we will be sharing words from Indigenous Australian languages. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that episodes of this show may contain voices or names of deceased persons.

This weeks IA-WoW is winangala, meaning “listen/hear/love” in Gamilaraay. It comes to us from ANU Astrophysics student Pete Swanton who has shared words with us from his language. The segment appears 21 minutes into the show.

You can listen to more Gamilaraay language on the Gambay language map and learn more about it through Glottolog and AUSTLANG. If you live in Canberra, you can even study Gamilaraay at ANU.

Cutting Room Floor

Cutting Room Floor 369: Grammar Table

Talking to Ellen Jovin of Grammar Table.

We introduce ourselves, talk about experiences we’ve had speaking with strangers, and share our plans for eradication of 12-hour time.

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Show notes

Genius hid a Morse code message in song lyrics to prove Google was copying them | BGR
https://bgr.com/2019/06/17/genius-vs-google-lyrics-results-on-search-copied-from-lyrics-site/

‘Paper towns’ and other lies maps tell you | MNN – Mother Nature Network
https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/paper-towns-and-other-lies-maps-tell-you

Map Traps: Intentional Mapping Errors to Combat Plagiarism ~ GIS Lounge
https://www.gislounge.com/map-traps-intentional-mapping-errors-combat-plagiarism/

‘Like’ banned by primary school to improve oracy | Tes
https://www.tes.com/news/gibb-stresses-oracy-primary-bans-word

This Grammar Guru Will Solve the World’s Problems
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/style/grammar-table-ellen-jovin.html

Words & Worlds of New York | Ellen Jovin
http://ellenjovin.com/

Quotation Marks | Punctuation Rules
https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp

Quotation Marks: Rules How to Use Them Correctly
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/quotation-marks/

Full transcript: Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull telephone conversation
https://www.smh.com.au/world/full-transcript-donald-trump-and-malcolm-turnbull-telephone-conversation-20170804-gxp13g.html

John McWhorter: In Defense of AOC’s ‘Concentration Camp’ Comment – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/defense-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-comment/592180/

AOC Wasn’t Wrong About Concentration Camps – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-21/aoc-wasn-t-wrong-about-concentration-camps

Twitter bots stir disinformation by ‘fishwrapping’ old news: Study
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-bots-stir-disinformation-by-fishwrapping-old-news-study-130000376.html

‘Fishwrap’ fake news campaign recycles old news of terror attacks | Media | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jun/12/fishwrap-fake-news-campaign-recycles-old-news-of-terror-attacks

Patrick McConvell: Shibbolethnonyms, Ex-Exonyms and Eco-Ethnonyms in Aboriginal Australia
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?id=2119616&url=article

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