Gretchen McCulloch
Writer at Freelance
Columnist at WIRED Magazine
Internet Linguist. NYT bestselling author of BECAUSE INTERNET. Cohost @lingthusiasm, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈
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1 week ago |
listennotes.com | Gretchen McCulloch |Lauren Gawne
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Gestures: every known language has them, and there's a growing body of research on how they fit into communication. But academic literature can be hard to dig into on your own. So Lauren has spent the past 5 years diving into the gesture literature and boiling it down into a tight 147 page book. In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about Lauren's new book, Gesture: A Slim Guide from Oxford University Press.
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Feb 15, 2024 |
podcasts.apple.com | Gretchen McCulloch |Lauren Gawne
For tens of thousands of years, humans have transmitted long and intricate stories to each other, which we learned directly from witnessing other people telling them. Many of these collaboratively composed stories were among the earliest things written down when a culture encountered writing, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Mwindo Epic, and Beowulf. In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about how writing things down changes how we feel about them.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
podcasts.apple.com | Gretchen McCulloch |Lauren Gawne
When you have a sentence like "I visit them", the word order and the shape of the words tell you that it means something different from "they visit me". However, in a sentence like "I laugh", you don't actually need those signals -- since there's only one person in the sentence, the meaning would be just as clear if the sentence read "Me laugh" or "Laugh me".
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Oct 2, 2023 |
gretchenmcculloch.com | Gretchen McCulloch
I joined onto a fun project this month, Zach Weinersmith of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is running a Kickstarter for his book, The Universe: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness, and one of the bonus rewards is an audiobook of his other book, Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulenss.
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Aug 2, 2023 |
gretchenmcculloch.com | Gretchen McCulloch
In June and July, I headed to Lingstitute 2023, the LSA summer institute, at UMass Amherst. It was great to get to hang out with old friends and meet lots of new peopleWhile I was in Massachusetts, I dropped by the headquarters of Merriam Webster to say hi to the dictionaries and lexicographers! (In that order.) Thanks especially to Peter Sokolowski for the guided tour and to Stacy Dickerman for the ride.
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Hard to believe @superlinguo and I have now made 100 podcast episodes together! My favourite fun fact from this episode is the one we saved for the very end about the word "hundred" and I'm not gonna spoil it for you, you gotta listen 👀
💯 It's our 100th episode! 💯 To celebrate, we're giving you 100 fun facts about linguistics this month: https://t.co/TWdQrOJDVt See how many you recognize and tell us about your favourite linguistics facts this month in honour of our 100th episodiversary!
