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

I'm Gretchen McCulloch.

And I'm Lauren Gorn. Today we're going to be talking about pronouns and how these little words do a lot of work.

But first, let's talk about where our logo comes from.

So when we were coming up with the idea that maybe we want to start a podcast,

and we started talking about logos because that's the first thing, obviously,

we realized that superlingual, Lauren's blog, uses a yellow green background,

and my blog, All Things Linguistic, utile background, kind of a bluish green,

so we figured that a true green, a vivid green,

was the logical way of splitting the difference between that. We're both big green fans. And

we also have IPA symbols in both of our logos. Superlingo has a schwa. And all things linguistic

has three. And I can't even remember. How bad is that? There's a theta, I know

that. It's alpha-theta lambda. It's an acronym. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, but they're also

symbols that are used in linguistics. So, kind of nerdy linguistic symbol logos meant that we,

we're going to continue that theme with this one as well.

And so we ended up going with the one that we have, which is a triple purpose logo.

If you haven't seen it, it's presumably in the icon of whatever program you're using to listen to this podcast.

We decided the symbol that is there looks like the International Phonetic Alphalbent symbol for the glottal stop,

which is the sound in, uh-oh,

this kind of stop of air in the back of your throat. But we got it by cutting off the dot

at the bottom of a question mark because that gave us more font options.

Unfortunately, disappointingly few stylish fonts have full IPA range for the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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