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Welcome again to Lexicon Valley, Slate's podcast about language, or language and linguistics, because I teach linguistics at Columbia, and I like to say that word.

In any case, I'm John McWhorter, and this week is going to be like, remember how in the 70s when a sitcom was failing, they would bring it together with some other sitcom.

And so different strokes and hello, Larry would get together and Arnold and whoever the young.

Anyway, so that was the sort of thing that would happen.

You'd have that kind of very special episode.

This is a very special episode of Lexicon Valley, except Lexicon Valley, at least in my opinion, is not

failing, and either is the wonderful podcast, Unorthodox. But I've got the unorthodox hosts up in here

with me, and we're going to do a joint show about Jewish language. Who do I mean? Well, we have Mark

Oppenheimer. Hi, Mark. Hi. I like to think of it as family ties goes to England. For example. For example. Yeah. Although, did they meet the cast of some other show while they were there? No, no, no. They brought in, you know, a street urchin. They got another baby, and then they went to England. And that's how they staved off. Who fell in love? Because by then I had stopped watching. I think Mallory had a liaison. Right, Mallory. Right. In Oxford. Yeah. Yeah. So this is family ties in England. Some fellow. And also, as we just heard, I'm Leal Liebivitz. Welcome to the show. I prefer to think of it as the love boat, which is my absolute favorite show going up. Didn't they get together with fans? They got together with everyone.

They sound like Congress.

On that break in Puerto Vallarda, they got together with whoever would get together with them.

You know what show doesn't hold up if you watch it again today?

The Love Poet actually.

Stephanie Butnik, thank you for being here. I think of this as the Mindy Project crossing over with Brooklyn Nine-Nine. That would be cool. And actually, wait. That happened. That happened. That's right. I remember I saw that episode. That's right. Those are two shows that everybody should watch more, especially the Mindy Project. It's failing unsupportably. In any case, our topic today is, it kind of ties into

the fact that I've touched on there being a black English now and then, and my thesis has

been that, yes, there is a such thing? But is there a such thing? And this would be of interest,

of course, to the unorthodox crew. Is there a such thing as Jewish English? And if there is, what is it?

And if there isn't, why not?

I could not not kick this off with the following clip, which I know you're all thinking about.

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