The Pandemic's Effect on Language

Lexicon Valley

Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Turns out that some languages are less intelligible through a mask than others, and, believe it or not, it all depends on how often you use certain consonants. It’s called the McGurk effect and it’s the closest that linguistics comes to actual magic. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 222: "The Pandemic's Effect on Language." With John McWhorter. Produced and edited by Mike Vuolo. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.2	From Book Smart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.
1:12.0	I'm John McWhorter.
1:13.6	And you know, in line with the fact that the Book Smart version of Lexicon Valley is going to be somewhat more topical than the grand old version,
1:22.5	I want to discuss something that I've tried not to get too much into because of my motto that life is always
1:28.1	happy in the valley and that is the pandemic especially since it could be argued that we're coming
1:34.8	out of it and I feel a little better about referring to it at length and I want to discuss language
1:41.2	and the pandemic and beyond the level that some people started asking back about
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