Communities need language. But a lot of the documentation is locked up in the archives.

So now linguists are teaming up with community researchers to demystify linguistic research, so that this work can be taken to their communities to help them speak the language.

Emma Murphy of Living Languages and community researcher Caroline Hughes are talking to Daniel, Hedvig, and Ben on this episode of Talk the Talk.

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Daniel is concerned and appalled that drill rapper Rico Racks has been enjoined from using certain words in his songs.

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Leave That In!

Leave That In! 383: Decolonising

Some influencers, eager to cultivate the illusion of sponsorship, are making fake sponcon — promoting products that they’re not actually getting paid for. So are there any products we would fake sponcon?

And is it cuffing season, or coughing season? Or both? We’re still not sure.

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Show notes

Drill rapper Rico Racks jailed and banned from rapping certain words | Music | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/21/drill-rapper-rico-racks-jailed-and-banned-from-rapping-certain-words?

Skengdo and AM: the drill rappers sentenced for playing their song | Music | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/31/skengdo-and-am-the-drill-rappers-sentenced-for-playing-their-song

A brief history of singular ‘they’ | Oxford English Dictionary
https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/

Everything you ever wanted to know about singular “they” | Stroppy Editor
https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-singular-they/

It’s OK To Use “They” To Describe One Person: Here’s Why – Everything After Z by Dictionary.com
https://www.dictionary.com/e/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/

A Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics Journals
https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/unified-style-sheet

https://twitter.com/DoyleColm/status/1185594562779189248

Teachers shocked by closed-mindedness of new kindergarten curriculum | News | ERR
https://news.err.ee/993553/teachers-shocked-by-closed-mindedness-of-new-kindergarten-curriculum

NWAV48: Pabst & Tagliamonte: I/Ø fed the squirrels
https://nwav48.sched.com/event/TzEQ/pabst-tagliamonte-i0-fed-the-squirrels-the-impact-of-cognitive-decline-on-subject-omission-in-one-individuals-diaries-over-the-lifespan-1985-2016

Linguists track impact of cognitive decline across three decades of one writer’s diaries | EurekAlert! Science News
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/uot-lti101019.php

Can natural language processing help detect dementia? This U of T grad student is trying to find out
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/natural-language-processing-dementia

Paper and Talk: How reclaiming Indigenous Australian languages gives power to the people – Monash Arts
https://arts.monash.edu/news-and-events/articles/paper-and-talk-reclaiming-indigenous-languages

Influencers Are Faking Brand Deals – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/12/influencers-are-faking-brand-deals/578401/

What Does ‘Sponcon’ Mean? | Slang Definition of Sponcon | Merriam-Webster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-sponcon-sponsored-content-influencer-slang-definition

Cuffing season: are people really coupling up just because it is winter? | Life and style | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/14/cuffing-season-are-people-really-coupling-up-just-because-it-is-winter

Urban Dictionary: Cuffing Season
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cuffing%20Season

What Is Cuffing Season – When Is Cuffing Season
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a24112382/cuffing-season/

What Is Cuffing Season and Are There Rules?
https://greatist.com/connect/cuffing-season

What Is “Cuffing Season”? | Psychology Today Australia
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-dynamics-love/201810/what-is-cuffing-season

Seasonal Variation of Testosterone and Waist to Hip Ratio in Men: The Tromsø Study | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/88/7/3099/2845254

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