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Linguistics After Dark is a podcast where three linguists (and sometimes other people) answer your burning questions about language, linguistics, and whatever else you need advice about. We have three rules: any question is fair game, there's no research allowed, and if we can't answer, we have to drink. It's a little like CarTalk for language: call us if your language is making a funny noise, and we'll get to the bottom of it, with a lot of rowdy discussion and nerdy jokes along the way. At the beginning of the show, we introduce a new linguistics term, and there's even a puzzler at the end!Linguistics After Dark Science
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  • Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2025

    Bonus Episode: LxAD LIVE @ CrossingsCon 2025
    Oct 6 2026
    In which LxAD show hosts Eli and Sarah get drunk and answer questions about language, live and unedited. That’s it. That’s the panel.Jump right to:0:00 Introduction2:25 Baby Language Acquisition Update5:01 Questions5:40 Question 16:17 Question 27:24 Question 3: What the heck is Linear B?20:36 Question 4: What do you do with a drunken linguist?22:00 Question 5: How did you get into linguistics?37:52 Question 6: Which forms of the word "beware" exist?44:43 Question 744:57 Question 8: Wizards with dyslexia; discuss52:44 Question 9: What is your favourite tongue twister and why?56:33 Lore Drop: l'Académie1:04:29 Question 101:06:17 Question 11: What is the worst pun you know in any language you know?1:06:59 Quiz1:09:27 Quiz Question I1:10:50 Quiz Question II1:14:24 Quiz Question III1:16:50 Quiz Question IV1:19:25 Quiz Question V1:23:58 Question 12: Where can I find the podcast?1:24:57 Gum Tasting1:33:23 Question 13: Can you explain Roman naming systems?1:46:47 Question 13b1:48:10 Question 14: Negative Polarity?2:01:54 Question 14b: Is Riker Nerd-Sniping Himself?2:12:57 Question 14c: What's a desire path?2:17:52 Question 15: Book Question2:23:52 Question 16: When word meanings change2:31:31 Not A Question: Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people.2:33:49 Question 17: The Lone Power's Name2:41:43 Question 18: How many words is "58 Queen Charlotte Street, 12:00"?2:42:33 Question 19: English promiscuity2:52:08 EndnotesMentioned in this panel:Diane Duane's ebook storeCat's First BabyThe Riddle of the LabyrinthHellsparkFine PreyBabelLexiconNative TongueEmbassytownToo Many DavesAlice KoberMichael VentrisJohn ChadwickJean Berko GleasonThrills gum ("it still tastes like soap!")Heaven's VaultUseful Charts writing systems of the world & alphabet postersSarah’s Linguistics of the Speech (2nd Edition Revised)Jenny's History of Elvish talkThe 2022 panel where swords were issuedAsk us questions:Send your questions (text or voice memo) to questions@linguisticsafterdark.com, or find us as @LxADpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook.Credits:Linguistics After Dark is produced by Emfozzing Enterprises. Editing for this episode was done by Bex, show notes are done by Jenny, and transcriptions are done by Luca. Our music is "Covert Affair" by Kevin MacLeod. Join us here!And until next time… if you weren’t consciously aware of your tongue in your mouth, now you are :)
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    2 h et 56 min
  • Episode 20: The Ghost of Language Past

    Episode 20: The Ghost of Language Past
    Jan 18 2026
    Wherein we play language games.Jump right to:12:47 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Language games37:07 Question 1: Could y’all talk about how your understanding of how to pronounce the word can affect what you think the spelling, etymology, or meaning is? Examples that comes to mind is “su-burban” vs “sub-urban,” “a napron” vs “an apron,” “a stigmatism” vs “an astigmatism,” “acomma” vs “a comma,” etc. though I think some of those examples are actually different phenomena from each other. I think one is juncture loss? Or rebracketing?58:28 Question 2: If you had a chance to influence the evolution of language, what feature/words would you add a) because you like them and b) to troll people?1:21:43 The puzzler: How can a cube be cut so that the cross-section is a hexagon?Covered in this episode:Latin: the Ghost of Spanish PastThe Ides of MarchNot philosophers discussing cavemen building wallsPig Latin and Ubbi dubbi vs cant, argot, Polari, Cockney rhyming slang…Argobus, argopodesLanguage cannot be containedVerlanJuncture loss, rebracketing, and reanalysis in generalRocketcoptersEli shares a hot take about French he heard years ago (from an actual linguist)LOLcat, dogespeak, and uwuspeakȝEvidentialityClusivityIdentity attestation in first- and second-person pronounsTitles aren’t pronouns but they’re sort of next doorDoctorates should not be relevant to playing frisbeeLinks and other post-show thoughts:WaniKaniYes, being in Italy during Easter during the Jubilee was wild; being in the Vatican while the Pope laid in state was even wilder. (No, Sarah and her students did not get to see him, because they did not have 3+ hours to stand in line.)“Ghosts speak Latin” was supposedly a common belief in Elizabethan England, although Jenny couldn’t actually find a source more direct/reliable than footnotes in various copies of Hamlet (I.i.49) so better citation possibly needed?Ubbi dubbi, Polari, Tutnese, and Verlan. We couldn’t find an actual concrete origin of the name “Pig Latin,” though it does seem to have been called “Hog Latin” and to have begun as a version of “Dog Latin” (which seems to have referred to parody Latin in general).The Pig Latin puzzler was episode 8!Sarah and Eli say that the N in ‘a whole nother’ is always there. This is false: around twenty minutes earlier, Sarah herself said “a whole other,” which in retrospect she can confirm is absolutely influenced by Al’s point that knowing how the spelling works can change your pronunciation.Several examples of Verlan from one of the channels Sarah likes.“Helicopter” came up in episode 14.“Electric” does derive from Greek “ēlektron,” but not directly! It was borrowed into Latin as “electrum,” and then “electricus” in the 1600s by physicist William Gilbert. “Electric” and “electricity” were both first used in English in the 1640s by Sir Thomas Browne, who seems to have coined the latter. “Electrick” is a known early alternate spelling, so that definitely always would have been pronounced with a [k], but we couldn’t find evidence in either direction for whether “electricity” has always had an [s]. Also, Jenny has had the Schoolhouse Rock song stuck in her head for three days.The conlang Eli was thinking of is the Aramteskan language from P.M. Freestone’s Shadowscent series, and was developed by Lauren Gawne, of Lingthusiasm fame!Dual, trial, paucal (not “trual,” whoops!)The NativLang video that discusses Chinese timekeeping words.Ask us questions:Send your questions (text or voice memo) to questions@linguisticsafterdark.com, or find us as @lxadpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.Credits:Linguistics After Dark is produced by Emfozzing Enterprises. Audio editing is done by Abby and Charlie, question wrangling and show notes are done by Jenny, and transcriptions are done by Luca and Deren. Our music is "Covert Affair" by Kevin MacLeod.And until next time… if you weren’t consciously aware of your tongue in your mouth, now you are :)
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    1 h et 32 min
  • Episode 19: Voiced Glottal Stop 2k25

    Episode 19: Voiced Glottal Stop 2k25
    Dec 6 2025
    Wherein we are pro-winter until approximately February 15.Jump right to:4:38 Linguistics Thing Of The Day: Allophones26:50 Question 1: Why do we say “And you will be… (this person)?” when confirming identity? Why is it future tense? This cannot possibly be English. This cannot exist. Am I just wrong or is this one of those weird linguistic things?34:59 Question 2: If you had to remove one sound from the human phonemic inventory, which one would it be and why?42:05 Question 3: So, English’s pronoun “they” can vary in meaning quite a lot, for example in phrases like: “well [you know] what they say….” In this case, the meaning of ‘they’ is kind of like ‘the general public.’ An extra pronoun in the language for this could be slightly useful, as confusion could occur between ‘they’ meaning ‘that one specific group of people’ [versus] ‘the general public.’ My question is; whether languages exist where something like this extra pronoun actually exists.1:02:36 The puzzler: A couple claimed it was the anniversary of their wedding in order to receive a discount at a restaurant. The woman said, “Our wedding was on a beautiful Sunday morning, with birds chirping and flowers all in bloom, twenty-eight years ago today.” The waiter responded that the wedding sounded lovely, but they did not qualify for the discount. How did he know they were lying?Covered in this episode:[d] vs. [t] vs. [ɾ], bases, paces, pesos, and besosEnglish “R” is really weird and none of us know why we do itAllophones in complementary distribution are like Batman and Bruce WayneEli is not the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme CourtSarah plans a very strange dinner partyThe future (tense) of English is vast and unknowable (and collapsing with the subjunctive even where it didn’t used to)One of those weird linguistic things turns out to actually be three of those weird linguistic thingsSarah and Eli briefly forget [ɦ] is a sound that existsBabies deserve to keep labiodental tap [ⱱ] but bilabial trill [ʙ] could goWe have not turned a shitpost into something useful“Chat” is not a fourth-person pronounOfficial LxAD stance: The correct thing to do upon seeing a pile of snow is “jump in it”Specific versus generic third-person plural pronounsClusivitySingular, dual, paucal, and pluralEli’s keyboard could have prevented him from guessing last time’s puzzlerLinks and other post-show thoughts:Congrats to Don Bravo in Marshfield who now have a year-round liquor license actually!We promised to include an allophones worksheet in the show notes, so here’s two from a Ling 101 class at UNC Chapel Hill!Voiced ⟨h⟩ is [ɦ], the voiced glottal fricativeThe IPA chart: note that here, as is sometimes the case, the “light gray” and “dark gray” boxes Sarah and Eli refer to are instead blank/empty & gray, respectively.The sounds Eli suggested collapsing into one are [x] (voiceless velar fricative), [χ] (voiceless uvular fricative), and [ħ] (voiceless pharyngeal fricative). Alternately, we could remove the pharyngeals entirely.Periodic Lingthusiasm shout-out!See more at linguisticsafterdark.comAsk us questions:Send your questions (text or voice memo) to questions@linguisticsafterdark.com, or find us as @lxadpodcast on all the usual socials.Credits:Linguistics After Dark is produced by Emfozzing Enterprises. Audio editing is done by Abby and Charlie, show notes are done by Jenny, and transcriptions are done by Luca and Deren. Our music is "Covert Affair" by Kevin MacLeod.And until next time… if you weren’t consciously aware of your tongue in your mouth, now you are :)
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    1 h et 11 min
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