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How names become words with their own meanings. How brands die and Karen becomes the person you don't want to be.
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How do we imply things that others can infer? How do we create implicatures? We discuss the Gricean Maxims of quality, quantity, relation, and manner.
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Straw men, slippery slopes, ad hominem and more. How do people use twisted logic?
We reference the logical fallacies from:
Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/logic_in_argumentative_writing/fallacies.html
Grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/rhetorical-devices/logical-fallacies/
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We talk about emotional vs logical arguments, how syllogisms work, and how to convince your friends that the sky is orange.
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We dive into the pros and cons of audiobooks and narration, with a significant tangent into the importance of human connection.
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We discuss some of the different types of gaslighting.
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We discuss compound questions, leading questions, and some of the differences in how questions are formed between different languages and cultures.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra! We discuss Star Trek's Tamarian encounter and how Captain Picard learns how to communicate using the Tamarians' historical metaphors.
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Breaking everything into little boxes. And EJ's dog definitely wanted to be a part of the show.
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We discuss the fantastic episode of Bluey where the mom asks the family to say "toilet" instead of "dunny."
You can find Dunny if you watch Bluey on Disney+.
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Can we define poetry? What makes good poetry? How do you find your voice? Do you have a poem inside you? Is AI ruining poetry? And, Stacie shares her "Ode to Pizza."
Joshua recommends A Poet's Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie and "Picnic, Lightning" by Billy Collins.
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We talk about different aspects of body language and give some examples of body languages across cultures.
EJ recommends reading What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro, and The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan and Barbara Pease.
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We discuss ideas from the study Does bilingualism protect against dementia? A meta-analysis by John A. E. Anderson, Kornelia Hawrylewicz, and John G. Grundy. Find the study at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32462636/ .
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A syntax discussion! What is merge? Is language actually special at all, or just one of a billion instances of merge in the human experience?
Stacie references the book Merge in the Mind-Brain: Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language by Naoki Fukui.
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We talk about working with teams, note-taking, the value of networking, and building connections by asking questions.
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How do langauges become international? How do widely spoken languages impact minority ones? What would it take for Icelandic to become a lingua franca?
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We discuss markedness, with a brief foray into phonetics. Stacie references the 1986 book Markedness, edited by Fred R. Eckman, Edith A. Moravcsik, and Jessica R. Wirth.
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How do different languages handle numbers?
Note: Here is a reference for different languages' plural rules for software localization: https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/43/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html
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What are the different ways people perceive grammaticality in language?
In this discussion, we rely heavily on Dr. Gert-Jan Schoenmakers' recent research in Linguistic judgments in 3D: the aesthetic quality, linguistic acceptability, and surface probability of stigmatized and non-stigmatized variation, which can be downloaded here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2021-0179/html
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