Grammy Girl here. I'm here. I'm in Yon Fog Fog and I'm here today with Natalie Schilling,

forensic linguist and Professor Emerita of linguistics at Georgetown University.

Natalie, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast.

Thanks so much for having me excited to be here.

Yeah, you bet. So, you you know I understand that you have been portrayed on TV

for your work and you know how did that come about and what is it that forensic

linguists do that is so exciting.

Yeah, so I have never been a TV star but I've been played on TV and not just once but

twice so I was let me think how to how to phrases so the first

me on TV was a person on criminal minds who is called Dr. Alex Blake and she's actually a composite not the real me

she's made up of a couple different people and she happens to be part linguist at Georgetown University, so she teaches at Georgetown University,

and she also happens to be an FBI agent at the same time.

So we don't have too many people who teach linguistics at Georgetown who are also FBI agents so they

took a little bit of artistic license with that with that character but that's me and

then the other time I've been played on TV is there's a character in a

scripted series called Man Hunt Unabom that's a Discovery Channel series and

there's a person on that show called Natalie Rogers and she is a composite of

me Natalie Schilling and Professor Roger shy Professor Emeritus of Georgetown University, who is one of what we consider

to be the founders of forensic linguistics.

Wow, it sounds like Georgetown is sort of the place to be if you're a forensic linguist.

It can be.

Professor Shai was instrumental in starting the field of forensic linguistics,

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