The Talk the Talk team is taking their show to the Disrupted Festival, and they’re chatting with internet influencer Ketan Joshi about data privacy, science advocacy, and changing minds. Plus their usual antics, games, and the dreaded Words of the …
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Was 2016 a dumpster fire 🗑🔥? Or was it just fire 🔥?
It’s time to look back at the words that defined our time, enlivened our speech, and zeited our geist in the previous year.
Daniel, Ben, and …
Can you hear colours? Or smell sounds?
We’re starting to understand synaesthesia — the blending of senses that some people experience. Now language researchers are using synaesthesia to understand how we process language, and even how language got started in …
Other animals don’t have language like we do, but some of them might be getting awfully close.
A recent experiment claims that some birds use a form of syntax — that they combine their signals in a way that’s always …
The written word lasts longer than speech, at least in principle.
But what happens when a writing system is lost in the mist of history? Lost writing can be deciphered, but these scripts have resisted all attempts.
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
There’s a lot of data out there.
And people are using it to find some pretty interesting patterns. Whether it’s finding global superdialects, or inferring language similarity from the errors of English learners, computers are expanding our language horizons.
Linguist …
Weird Al Yankovic’s song “Word Crimes” combines grammar with music, and it’s fun to listen to.
But linguists are pointing out that these word crimes are not so felonious after all.
Linguist Daniel Midgley continues the investigation on this episode …
The Voynich Manuscript is 600 years old, written in a strange script, and it’s never been deciphered.
Is it a guide to the universe, a book of secrets, or is it just pages and pages of gibberish? Modern techniques are …
Language research is turning up some surprising things about how language and gender interact.
It appears that our brains process language differently with male or female speakers. But what about online text? Can you tell whether someone is male or …
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