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From coconut trees to Brat Summer, folks on the internet

are hard at work trying to analyze Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

But if you want to really understand how people perceive the Democratic nominee,

it's not enough to just listen to what Harris has to say.

You also have to pay attention to how she says it. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came

before you. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feltman. Today I'm chatting with

Nicole Holliday, an acting associate professor of linguistics at the

University of California, Berkeley. She's recently gone viral for making TikToks about how Kamala Harris

talks and what it all means for her campaign. Thanks for being here, Nicole. I would love to start

by hearing a little bit about what drew you to linguistics in the first place.

The joke is that linguistics has a PR problem because everybody just like stumbles into it.

Very few students, you don't go to college being like, I'm going to study linguistics.

Nowadays more than they used to, but not when I was a student.

So I went into college studying Spanish and Arabic.

I was good at languages.

And then somebody suggested that I might like a linguistics class,

so I took it and changed my major two weeks later.

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