Category: numbers

392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)

4 February 2020 / / Comments Off on 392: Your Voice (with Jane Setter)

Your voice is your ability to represent your point of view.

So which voices are getting validated? Why are certain voices getting repressed? How do we end accent prejudice?

Daniel and Ben are speaking to Dr Jane Setter, author …

318: Mailbag of Awesome

20 March 2018 / / Comments Off on 318: Mailbag of Awesome

We get mail. From you. And today, we’re answering your questions.

How has jazz influenced our language? And what if you like language diversity, but you’re not too keen on how it’s used?

Daniel and Kylie answer them all on …

316: Numbers and the Making of Us (featuring Caleb Everett)

7 March 2018 / / Comments Off on 316: Numbers and the Making of Us (featuring Caleb Everett)

When we got numbers, things really started to happen.

How do other languages handle numbers? How do pre-linguistic children conceptualise them? And how did the development of numbers influence our development as humans?

We’re talking to anthropological linguist and author …

279: Mailbag – Competitive Edition

14 March 2017 / / Comments Off on 279: Mailbag – Competitive Edition

We’re taking your questions on a Mailbag episode!

Along the way, we’re going to find out some pretty strange things about how words and phrases got to be how they are. Do you say zero or oh? What is …

256: Numbers

9 August 2016 / / 2 Comments

One, two, three… Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

And yet different languages express numbers in very different ways. How are they handled in our brains? And how did –illion get to be the suffix for truly astronomical sums?

Linguist Daniel …

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