148. Bonus 2021
The Allusionist
Helen Zaltzman
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
I've been saving them up all year, and now it's time for the annual selection box of Bonus Bits! Things this year's guests said that couldn't fit into their episode, or weren't related to language, but ARE related to being a bonus bit. We've got percussive pan protests; the mating habits, and male-killing habits, of ladybirds; Icelandic aunts/uncles/cousins/wait which member of the extended family are you referring to?; Morse code machines; and a surprisingly heated topic, the semantics of salad.
Links to all the original episodes featuring these guests are at theallusionist.org/bonus2021, plus a transcript and the full dictionary entry for the randomly selected word.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, leave a character by the chimney for language. |
| 0:09.6 | Thanks to Ashera, by the way, for another year of collecting what are known in the illusion |
| 0:13.9 | verse as Inwitches and illustrating each of them with a carefully chosen gift, you can |
| 0:19.1 | see all of them at Inwitches.tombler.com. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm sure future generations will be studying it avidly, for clues to the meaning of life. |
| 0:26.8 | Today's episode is our annual lucky dip of bonus bits which I've been saving all year |
| 0:31.9 | because often the illusionists guess to say too many interesting things to fit into one |
| 0:36.6 | episode. |
| 0:37.6 | All they say interesting things that aren't about language. |
| 0:41.2 | So I stash those things away. |
| 0:43.0 | Until now, there have been lots of very fine episodes this year for you to catch up on. |
| 0:47.3 | We've had the surprising history of Dude and Zero and other numbers and headwitches. |
| 0:53.6 | We heard from the inventor of the Port Mantone Missoginois. |
| 0:57.4 | We heard about language for asexuality and aromanticism, for transparenthood, for disability |
| 1:03.5 | and bereavement and mental health. |
| 1:05.5 | We learned how Icelandic is handling the 21st century. |
| 1:09.3 | We heard about cakes and recipes as forms of protest. |
| 1:12.5 | We started the year with analysis of apologies. |
| 1:15.3 | That episode has been very useful. |
| 1:17.2 | In fact, if you know a celebrity, send it to them just in case because they will probably |
| 1:23.6 | end up needing it. |
| 1:25.4 | On with the bonus bits of 2021. |
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