Talking Jewish With Lexicon Valley: Ep. 94

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week, we recorded a special crossover episode with Lexicon Valley, the podcast hosted by linguist John McWhorter. John was a guest on our show in December 2016, and when we weren’t interrupting him, we were discussing things like the word ‘like’ and his latest book, Talking Back, Talking Black. We sat down with him again for an in-depth conversation about whether there’s such a thing as Jewish English, the beauty of yeshivish, and, of course, the dinner scene from 'Annie Hall.' Check out Lexicon Valley here. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes, behind-the-scenes photos, and more! Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com—we may read your note on air. Follow us on Twitter: @tabletmag, @markopp1, @liel, and @stuffism. This episode is brought to you by Harry’s. Go to Harrys.com and enter code UNORTHODOX at checkout to get a free post shave balm. This episode is also brought to you by AT&T. Enjoy unlimited entertainment with unlimited data from AT&T. Learn more at att.com/unlimited.

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1:06.3	caps. Hey, Unorthodox listeners, this is Mark. We have a special episode this week. We teamed up with John McWorder, the great linguist and the author of Talking Back, talking black, to do a special joint episode. We went into his studio for his podcast Lexicon Valley and well give it a listen. We were talking about language and words and Jews and the important thing is that if you don't know his podcast yet not only will you enjoy it with us as the guests this week but then you really have to go
1:09.7	subscribe and Lexicon Valley is available at panoply so you can go to panoply dot fm. It has its own website and of course it's available on iTunes
1:17.2	You also have to buy all of John McWhorter's books. He's totally one of the great writers on linguistics and we're all big family right?
1:24.6	And pay $50,000 to go here at Columbia where he teaches.
1:27.8	Oh yeah you could do that too.
1:28.8	It's the whole experience, the whole John McQuarter.
1:31.3	Yeah.
1:31.9	The whole John McQuirta experience pay lots of money to hear of Teach at Columbia,
1:35.0	buy his books on Amazon or at the indie bookstore near you, but definitely, you know what's free?
1:41.0	His podcast, Lexicon Valley. So here are all of us and all of him doing a special joint
1:47.5	unorthodox Lexicon Valley episode. Have a listen. Listen.
1:53.0	Welcome again to Lexicon Valley,
1:58.0	Slates Podcast about Language.
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