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

and I'm Gretchen McCulloch. And today we're going to be talking about kids these days and how they're not ruining language.

But first, we have an exciting announcement.

Linguism is on Patreon.

Yay!

Yay!

So if you want more Lenthusiasm every month or an opportunity to ask us your burning linguistics questions,

or you just want to help us keep the show

running sustainably, doing things like paying our producer and our web hosting fees and the person

who writes our transcripts, then you can help support us on the Patreon, and that directly

allows us to keep the show running in a sustainable manner. Yeah, and if you're wondering if we can upgrade our mics,

or have guest linguists to interview, or maybe even a live show? Live show! Yes, we want this to

happen, too, people. We really want this to happen. We want to hang out. We want to hang out with you

guys. Um, the answer is yes. We would like to do all these things, but we can't do it alone.

The cool thing about Patreon is that it allows us to keep this space advertising free for everybody. So the main

episode every month will always run without advertising. So every time you don't hear an ad trying

to sell you a web building tool or something to eat or something to read, then...

Or I think we should really take ads for sketchy, teach yourself a language in three days

courses. I think those would be really reputable to associate ourselves with. Definitely. We don't

have to do that, though, because we've set up the Patreon. And we think it's a much better way

for us to keep doing the show and for you to keep enjoying the show.

And if you want to listen to our bonus episode, their first one is about swearing. So we decided not to swear in the main podcast because we want people to be able to put it on at work or around kids. So instead, we're really letting loose in the Patreon episode.

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