The rules are changing. Here’s the manual.
Gretchen McCulloch’s book Because Internet is a look at how people use language on the net to communicate and to show identity. How do people laugh online? How is emoji like gesture?
It’s a deep dive into internet language on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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And now it’s time for Daniel to play “How Friggin’ Old Am I?” based on his internet behaviour. But not before falling down a Kate Bush rabbit hole.
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Indigenous Australian Word of the Week (IA-WoW): jabony
In honour of the UN declaring 2019 the Year of Indigenous Languages, we will be sharing words from Indigenous Australian languages.
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This weeks IA-WoW is jabony, meaning “that’s it”, “goodbye” or “finished” in Ngandi. It comes to us from Grant Mathumba Thompson from the Ngukurr Language Centre who has shared words from his language with us.
You can listen to more Ngandi language on the Gambay language map and learn more about it through Glottolog and AUSTLANG.
Full interview
Gretchen McCulloch‘s new book is Because Internet, and it contains a wealth of information and research about how people are using the net to interact — and changing the conventions of language as they do so. How do you laugh using text? How is emoji like gesture? All this and more.
Thanks to Gretchen for the chat, and thanks to the Australian Linguistic Society for making it possible.
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Leave That In!
Bonus news item! Illnesses can be predicted by the words in your Facebook feed. But can Ben and Hedvig match the words to the illnesses? An impromptu quiz goes horribly wrong when Daniel gets too enthusiastic with the sound effects.
Daniel claims he’s never seen an episode of Friends. Has this episode turned into “Two Truths and One Lie”?
Who’s that coming over the horizon? It’s Huntso!
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Show notes
Culture shapes how we learn to reason?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-culture.html
Context shapes early diversity in abstract thought | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/28/13891
Facebook posts better at predicting diabetes, mental health than demographic info | EurekAlert! Science News
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uops-fpb061319.php
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540664/because-internet-by-gretchen-mcculloch/9780735210936/
McCulloch and Gawne: Emoji Grammar as Beat Gestures (PDF)
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2130/short1.pdf
Beat Gestures | Gestures, Speech and Sign Language in Language Evolution
https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/hg3040-2014-7/?page_id=188
Bad News
https://getbadnews.com/#intro
“Pre-bunking” is an effective tool against fake news, browser game shows
https://www.zmescience.com/science/fake-news-pre-bunking-8246364/
Fake news ‘vaccine’ works: ‘Pre-bunking’ game reduces susceptibility to disinformation — ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624204800.htm
Pre-bunking: can you be ‘brainwashed’ into spotting fake news? | Media | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/shortcuts/2018/feb/20/pre-bunking-can-you-be-brainwashed-into-spotting-fake-news
Researchers Conducted Six Studies To Investigate How Best To Challenge Science Deniers | Research Digest
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2019/07/10/researchers-conducted-six-studies-to-investigate-how-best-to-challenge-science-deniers/
Thanks, I hate this picture of a horse with a dog’s mouth : TIHI
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/at3u2c/thanks_i_hate_this_picture_of_a_horse_with_a_dogs/
Arby’s unveils the marrot, a carrot made of meat
https://www.fastcompany.com/90368896/arbys-is-making-carrots-out-of-meat-yes-meat
Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers” – Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/7/3/20680731/mississippi-veggie-burgers-illegal-meatless-meat
Mississippi Bans the Phrase “Veggie Burgers” – Slog – The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/07/08/40701777/mississippi-bans-the-phrase-veggie-burgers-from-veggie-burger-products-in-grocery-stores
BBC World Service – The Food Chain, When is a burger not a burger?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csyp0d
‘Old chestnut’ – the meaning and origin of this phrase
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/old-chestnut.html
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