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212: Fourth Floor

4 August 2015 / Daniel Midgley / Comments Off

Language change is all around us — even at department stores.

It’s there that linguist Daniel Midgley travelled to get in touch with a 50-year-old linguistic experiment that changed the world. And it all starts with a question: What’s on …

209: Typography

15 June 2015 / Daniel Midgley / Comments Off

Typography is more than just font design.

It affects informational readability — and at times, credibility. It’s contributed terms to our language. And sometimes, there are stories of intrigue hidden in its past.

Linguist Daniel Midgley is the font of …

208: Bogan Linguistics (featuring Roz Rowen)

9 June 2015 / Daniel Midgley / 1 Comment

Are you, or have you ever been a bogan?

Bogan English doesn’t get a lot of respect, but one linguist is transcending social boundaries to bring Bogan Linguistics to the world.

Linguist Roz Rowen cracks a tinny with Daniel Midgley…

190: Rap Linguistics (featuring Darin Flynn)

3 February 2015 / Daniel Midgley / Comments Off

Rap is the music of the street. And now it’s on campus.

Linguist Darin Flynn has created a university linguistics class that puts rap lyrics on the syllabus. What can hip-hop poets tell us about language?

Dr Flynn tells Daniel …

184: We Do Language (featuring Anne Charity Hudley)

18 November 2014 / Daniel Midgley / Comments Off

There’s more than one way to speak English.

But too often, kids who speak other varieties of English find themselves on the wrong side of their teachers. How can educators — and everyone else — avoid linguistic discrimination and value …