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Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

Science

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is our hundredth episode that's enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, we've put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, featuring contributions from previous guests and Lingthusiasm team members, fan favourites that resonated with you from the previous 99 episodes, and new facts that haven't been on the show before but might star in one of the next 100 episodes in greater detail. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne talk about brains, gesture, etymology, famous example sentences, languages by the numbers, a few special facts about the word "hundred" and way more! This episode is both a fun overview of the vibe of Lingthusiam if you've never listened before, and a bonus bingo card game for diehard fans to see how many facts you can recognize. We also invite you to share this episode alongside one of your favourite fun facts about linguistics and help more people find Lingthusiasm in honour of our 100th episodiversary! Whether you pick something new that resonates from this episode, or share the fact you were sitting on the edge of your seat hoping we'd mention, we look forward to staying Lingthusiastic with you for the next 100 episodes. Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice: episodes.fm/1186056137/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMjAxMDg1Njk3MQ Read the transcript here: lingthusiasm.com/post/772874564563845120/transcript-episode-100 Announcements: In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from recent interviews that we didn't quite have space to share with you! First, we go back to our interview with phonetician Jacq Jones, previously seen talking about how binary and non-binary people talk. Then, we return to computational linguist Emily M. Bender to talk about how Emily's students made a computational model of Lauren's grammar of Lamjung Yolmo and how linguistics is a team sport. Finally, we return to our group interview with the team behind Tom Scott's Language Files to talk about sneaky Icelandic jokes and the unedited behind-the-scenes version of the gif/gif joke. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 90+ other bonus episodes. You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds: patreon.com/posts/118982443 For links to things mentioned in this episode: lingthusiasm.com/post/772874257193730048/lingthusiasm-episode-100-a-hundred-reasons-to-be

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:18.2

I'm Gretchen McCulloch.

0:19.8

And I'm Lauren Gorn. And today we're getting enthusiastic about linguistics. I'm Gretchen McCulloch. And I'm Lauren Gorn, and today we're

0:21.7

getting enthusiastic about linguistics in 100 different ways for our 100th episode. But first,

0:28.2

thanks for joining us for this very special round number episode. Whether this is your first or

0:33.7

100th episode of Lingththth episode or anywhere in between, we're delighted by your enthusiasm

0:38.5

for linguistics.

0:39.5

Our most recent bonus episode was deleted scenes from interviews, including talking to Jack

0:44.8

Jones about linguistics crafting, chatting gaver guy with Tom Scott, and a discussion about

0:49.5

computational linguistics and language documentation with Emily Bender.

0:53.2

The support of our patrons and your enthusiasm for our bonus episodes on Patreon

0:58.7

has been the way that we funded the show for the first 100 episodes, and your continued

1:02.9

support will help us make many more.

1:05.6

For this bonus episode and over 90 other bonus episodes, go to patreon.com slash Lengthusiasm.

1:24.4

This is our 100th episodes of Linguisholm.

1:27.1

We should do something special to celebrate.

1:29.2

Oh yeah, we could do an episode on the linguistics of time words like month or year.

1:35.0

I think we've done that. But what if we do like tense and how time works in grammar?

1:40.2

No, we've done that too. We could do numbers. No, we've done numbers in a bonus episode.

1:47.5

Besides, how are we supposed to pick just one favorite topic? When it comes to linguistics,

1:52.5

maybe our favorite topic is all of them? I remember when I was first learning linguistics

1:58.1

and feeling like I was constantly having my mind expanded by

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