The Wide World of Language Diversity

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer discuss a regional grammatical construction that is most common in the Philadelphia area, though it’s also found in Canada and Vermont. Then they talk with journalist Allyson Waller about Black American Sign Language. Waller won the Linguistics Journalism award from the Linguistic Society of America for her New York Times piece “Black, Deaf, and Extremely Online.” Finally, we invite listener Ben Snitkoff to take part in some wordplay with an improv-comedy theme. Do you have any language questions or fun facts to share? Email us at [email protected]. Produced by Jasmine Ellis and June Thomas. Here are some notes and references from this episode: The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project page for the “done my homework” construction A Facebook Live video of a conversation between Britney Trumpy and Patsy Kelly “Black, Deaf, and Extremely Online,” by Allyson Waller for the New York Times The Linguistics Society of America’s announcement of the 2021 Linguistics Journalism Award Nakia Smith’s TikTok page The documentary Signing Black in America Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, by Carl Zimmer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	Hello, I'm Nicole Holiday, a linguistics professor
0:35.0	at the University of Pennsylvania.
0:36.8	And I've been Zimmer, language columnist
0:38.7	for the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.0	And this is spectacular vernacular.
0:42.0	A podcast will be not only explore language.
0:44.7	We also play with it.
0:46.6	This week, our special guest is Alison Waller,
0:48.8	a journalist who wrote an award-winning article
0:50.9	for the New York Times about how Black American
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