180. Project ENABLE

The Allusionist

Helen Zaltzman

Arts, Education, Words, Linguistics, History, Entertainment, Helen Zaltzman, Etymology, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sterling Martin was in grad school, studying C. elegans worms, when COVID19 hit and suddenly he found himself in lexicography, as part of a team creating a Navajo-English dictionary of science terms.

Browse the dictionary at EnableNavajo.com, and donate to help the project add more educational materials at navajobiology.square.site.

Find out more about this episode and the topics therein, and obtain the transcript, at theallusionist.org/projectenable.

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0:00.0	This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zoltzman, take a photo of language pretending
0:09.5	to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa. But what language doesn't know until too late is
0:14.4	that I deliberately framed it wrong, so it just looks like language is standing in front
0:18.4	of the leaning tower of Pisa, holding its arm out like a little teabot.
0:23.0	Earlier this year, I attended a dictionary conference. Yes, heaven is a place on earth,
0:28.1	and Akala must also have been to the Dictionary Society of North America's biennial conference.
0:33.1	I learned a lot and met some very interesting people working in lexecography,
0:38.0	and over this episode and the next couple, you'll hear from some of them.
0:42.2	Compton Note, this episode contains fleeting references to medical conditions,
0:46.4	including cancer and COVID, but not any descriptions or experiences thereof.
0:51.6	It's an upbeat episode about a great project combining science and lexecography.
0:56.9	Reminder, go to theillusionist.org-slahtonate to become a member of The Illusionverse,
1:02.5	and if you do that by the end of August 2023, you can choose a word or phrase for meter
1:08.9	accord for your use, as your wake-up alarm, ringtone, text alert, doorbell,
1:14.4	affirmation. Whatever you want to use it for, go to build a bear and put it in the bear's voice
1:19.0	box. As well as that, you get fortnightly live streams with me and my dictionaries.
1:25.1	Behind the scenes info about every new episode, and membership of The Illusionverse Discord,
1:30.8	an online community that is not a hellhole. Yes, it can be done.
1:34.8	And with your financial support, you are keeping this independent show going.
1:39.7	All that for as little as $2 a month, welcome aboard at theillusionist.org-slahtonate,
1:46.8	on with the show.
1:55.5	My PhD thesis was looking at embryonic development using
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