Welcome to Lingthusiasm, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.

I'm Lauren Gorn.

And I'm Gretchen McCulloch.

And today we're going to be talking about universal language and why it doesn't work.

But first, a little bit about what the enthusiasm is.

So, I guess the important thing is to unpack a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.

Yeah, we chose our tagline because we're here to explore interesting things that language

has to offer, and especially what looking at language from a linguistics perspective can tell

us about how language works.

So both of us have blogs where we do a fair amount of that, but that's a fairly solitary enterprise.

And we wanted to take the opportunity to have more of a conversation, something that's a little less

disembodied.

And we like that podcast make you feel like part of a conversation, and there's a certain

genre of linguist conversation that we think non-linguists

don't get to listen in on enough, where we just are very excited about all the things that

happen in linguistics.

And there's a general kind of a nerdery and an enthusiasm that you kind of often get

like a glimpse of this when linguists do interviews, but the chance to kind of chat to another linguist

is something that we get to do over coffee, but we chance to kind of chat to another linguist is something

that we get to do over coffee, but we know people don't always get to hear that perspective,

and so that's what this podcast is all about.

Yeah, so you can think of it as us sitting down over we're talking about languages and linguistics is, wouldn't it be great if everyone just spoke one language?

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