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Let's Learn Everything!

73: Linguist Gretchen McCulloch, Latin in Science, and Internet Linguistics

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8547 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch of Lingthusiasm joins us to casually answer all of our pressing linguistics questions with the most mind blowing facts. Why does science use so much dang latin, and what is so unique about internet linguistics?

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0:00.0

I was just listening to the... Well, I finished the Tom Scott episode. I was listening to the Zach and Kelly one. But I was like, I'm not going to get through it in time, so I've sped it up a lot. And so I feel like I'm used to your... I have my, in my head that your voice are supposed to be much faster. It's like training with weights, and then you take the weights off and you're like, I can handle their chaos now.

0:22.2

Their chaos is nothing.

0:40.4

Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything, the show where we learn anything and everything interesting.

0:47.8

Today, we have a special guest on who will be asking us a question, and then we'll ask them a few questions of our own.

0:48.8

See how they like it.

1:03.1

My name's Tom, and today's guest is a linguist author and one of the hosts of the fantastic, the prolific Ling-thusiasm podcast, but perhaps has the highest honor of having been drawn into an XKCD comic.

1:03.9

Oh, wow.

1:13.6

My name is Ella, and today I will be asking our guest, what is your favorite conlang or constructed language?

1:14.7

Oh, and why?

1:22.6

My name's Caroline, and my question is, what does it mean to study internet linguistics and what makes it different?

1:28.5

And my name is Gretchen McCulloch, and my question is, why does science use so much Latin?

1:29.3

Oh.

1:32.0

Great.

1:33.7

That's such a good question.

1:39.3

I will say, I very selfishly tossed this question to question because it was a legitimate question I had had.

1:40.9

I was like, I think this will be great content, but also being like, but also I really just want to know.

1:47.4

I love it.

1:48.6

You're just getting Gretchen to do your homework for you, Tom.

1:51.3

That's not fair.

1:52.3

Yeah.

1:53.3

I love it when someone else does a topic that you want to do, but you don't know how to

1:57.1

research it properly, so somebody else takes it.

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