When homosexuality was illegal, a secret language brought people together.
In 1960s England, Polari was a creative blend of Romani, Italian, rhyming slang, and backslang, used among the LGBT community. It could be used to communicate, or to identify someone …
What were the words that marked our year?
Daniel was there for the serious, the social, and the silly at the American Dialect Society’s annual Word of the Year vote.
Hedvig and Daniel discuss all the words on this episode …
The Australian Aboriginal language of Mirawoong is being revitalised. But to do this, it needs more than speakers. It needs words.
How do you construct new words in a language? And how well are these words being accepted?
We’re talking …
It’s Word of the Year season again, and Daniel was repping Talk the Talk at the year’s biggest vote.
But controversy surrounds the WotY. Is it too white, too old, and too male? How can this be helped?
Daniel regales …
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Become a Patron!Talk the Talk was a podcast about language that ran on community radio station RTRFM in Perth Australia. It aired on Tuesdays at 11am from about 2009 until early 2020.
Many people took part, but the main crew was Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, Kylie Sturgess, and Hedvig Skirgård.
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