We love taking questions, and for this episode, we’ve got a lot of them.
What’s behind the things we say, and why is language the way it is? Is calling someone a drop-kick secretly obscene? Why does Germany have so many names? And why are there italics?
Daniel, Ben, and Kylie will answer these and so many more on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Teasing some of the questions with Kylie ahead of the show.
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Cutting Room Floor
Ben tells about the weirdest student he ever had, and it actually turns out kind of relatable.
Why does Kylie say different to? It has to do with a young adult novel.
Chinese students sometimes use the term TuAo to mean Australia. Is it nice, or kind of snarky? And how backward is mobile payment technology in Australia?
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Show notes
Andrzej M. Łęcki: Grammaticalisation Paths of Have in English
Google Books link
Mari Johanne Hertzenberg: The Use and Development of Habere + Infinitive in Latin (PDF)
http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/proiel/Activities/proiel/publications/Mari_ICHL.pdf
login the noun v. login the verb
Online Etymology Dictionary: log
http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=log&allowed_in_frame=0
Oxford Dictionaries: Different from, than, or to?
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/different-from-than-or-to
Stack Exchange: Differences between “price point” and “price”
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11879/differences-between-price-point-and-price
Green’s Dictionary of Slang: dropkick and punt
https://greensdictofslang.com/search/basic?q=dropkick+and+punt
Why Are There Different Names for the Same Country?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30810/why-are-there-different-names-same-country
Wikipedia: Names of Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany
土澳 or TuAo: Is this Chinese popular term for Australia affectionate or condescending?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-07/is-chinese-tuao-for-australia-condescending/8591168
The Visionary Behind Italics
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/highlights-of-a-printer-who-invented-italics/386845/
The Origin of Italics
http://www.blakeatwood.com/origin-italics/
The Hidden Language Of The ~Tilde~
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/the-hidden-language-of-the-tilde
TypeTalk: Italic vs. Oblique
https://creativepro.com/typetalk-italic-vs-oblique/
Bilinguals find it easier to learn a third language
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110201110915.htm
Can a Second Language Help You Learn a Third?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201506/can-second-language-help-you-learn-third
WALS: Number of Cases
http://wals.info/chapter/49
This is the most important moment of the Comey testimony
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/8/15762266/comey-day-hearing-i-took-it-as-direction-risch
First “Lordy,” now “holy cow.” All we need is a “land’s sakes!” for the Folksy Grandma Trifecta.
— Kory Stamper (@KoryStamper) 8 June 2017
The Brussels Binder: Give the Women of Brussels a Voice
https://brusselsbinder.org
Congrats, you have an all male panel!
http://allmalepanels.tumblr.com
The ‘Manels Affliction’ – or those all-male conference panels talking about stuff that affects everyone
http://linkis.com/m.mgafrica.com/artic/hEsFB
Play Bingo! 2 understand events w/all-male speakers & #manels MT @KateSB http://t.co/89NEFnkarQ @NoWomenSpeakers pic.twitter.com/C9rAd6yGeA
— Lisa Petrides (@lpetrides) 24 February 2014
Men cite themselves more than women do
http://www.nature.com/news/men-cite-themselves-more-than-women-do-1.20176
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