Lexicon Valley
Lexicon Valley
A podcast about language, with hosts Mike Vuolo, Bob Garfield and John McWhorter.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 4, 2012 • 30min
Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
Sequoyah: The Cherokee man who invented an alphabet for his language.
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Nov 13, 2012 • 35min
Undocumented Illegals
The heated debate over language at the heart of U.S. immigration policy.
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Nov 1, 2012 • 33min
Death to Potatoes
On the all-important role that language translation — and mistranslation — plays in our lives, with Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche.
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Oct 16, 2012 • 32min
Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
What misspeaking might reveal about the way our mental dictionary is organized.
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Oct 2, 2012 • 27min
The Rate of Exchange
On the widespread belief that other languages are spoken more rapidly than your own.
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Sep 18, 2012 • 28min
Ascent of the A-Word
Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on his book Ascent of the A-Word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years.
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Jul 9, 2012 • 23min
Our Dying Words
Should we care when a language dies?
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Jul 2, 2012 • 32min
Then Is Now, Now and Then
The narrative mastery of Seinfeld's Kramer: talking about the past in the present tense.
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Jun 18, 2012 • 33min
By Their Words You Shall Know Them
How we know L. Frank Baum didn't write the 15th Oz book — the surprising way mathematicians can determine authorship.
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Jun 11, 2012 • 40min
Capturing the Past
“Lord Grantham, Don Draper’s on Hold”: The algorithm that finds anachronisms in Downton Abbey, Mad Men and Edith Wharton.
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