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Det er et imponerende maskineri som er i sving når vi snakker. Har du tenkt på akkurat hvor du legger tungespissen når du lager en T? Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio

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Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… supreme hubris.The Supreme Court is currently unpopular to a historic degree. That popularity is, of course, contingent on political opinion – and whether the court

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Care Package (Rebroadcast) - 4 September 2023

Sending someone acare packageshows you care, of course. But the first care packages were boxes of food and personal items for survivors of World War II. They were from the Committee for American Remit

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81: Mother Tongue (with Jenni Nuttall)

Women's bodies, women's occupations, women's experiences. So often in history, the discourse about women has been by men, about women. And that means that women's words have been lost. Dr Jenni Nuttal

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Hear Me Out: Harm Reduction Saves Lives

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… preventing the preventable.At best, the rate of epidemic of drug overdose deaths in this country is slowing — but by many metrics and in many jurisdictions, the situ

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Cootie Shot (Rebroadcast) - 28 August 2023

Perfect sentences and slang that tickles your mind! A new book of writing advice says a good sentence “imposes a logic on the world’s weirdness” and pares away options for meaning, word by word. • You

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180. Project ENABLE

Sterling Martin was in grad school, studying C. elegans worms, when COVID19 hit and suddenly he found himself in lexicography, as part of a team creating a Navajo-English dictionary of science terms.B

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Everyday Shakespeare

Michael Rosen talks to Ben and David Crystal about the Shakespeare quotes we use every day, without even realising. We’ve all heard someone roll their eyes and say “the lady doth protest too much, me

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Hear Me Out: Sit Down and Shut Up at Concerts and Theaters

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… main character syndrome.As concerts and movie theaters have roared back to life this summer, so has a disturbing trend: bad behavior. You’ve seen the videos, probabl

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Sticky Wicket - 21 August 2023

Is listening to an audiobook for a book club somehow “cheating”? Is there no substitute for engaging with the printed page, or do audiobooks adds a whole new dimension? Plus, amocktailos an artisanal

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83: How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro

Young kids growing up in Guatemala often learn Q’anjob’al, Kaq’chikel, or another Mayan language from their families and communities. But they don’t live next to the kinds of major research universiti

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CD Covington’s Guide to Linguistic Worldbuilding

George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter. Links:

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Therapy Speak

Susie Orbach talks to Michael Rosen about the use and misuse of “therapy speak”. With the rise of mental health awareness, it seems to have leaked out of the therapist’s office and into our homes. Ins

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Hear Me Out: You’re Not Too Cool To Go On A Cruise

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… choosin’ cruisin’.There seem to be two types of people in this world: those who love going on cruise ships, and those who wouldn’t be caught dead on one. Whichever y

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Ding Ding Man (Rebroadcast) - 14 August 2023

In 1803, a shy British pharmacist wrote a pamphlet that made him a reluctant celebrity. The reason? He proposed a revolutionary new system for classifying clouds — with Latin names we still use today,

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179. Andy Quiz

It's the annual etymology quizlusionist! I’m on a family holiday for the first time since 1988, so enlisted my brother Andy Zaltzman of the Bugle podcast to test his/your wits on singing goats, explos

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Fandom

There's lots of 'birging' in this week's programme. For those not in the know - that's short for Basking In Reflected Glory and it's something football fans in particular do when they talk about their

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Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… almost affirmative.We don’t yet know what the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action is going to do, tangibly, to college admissions — or how long those impact

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Gleam in Your Eye - 7 August 2023

A remarkable new documentary explores the world of amateur and professional mermaiding and the language bubbling up within it. Some mermaiding enthusiasts greet each other with a friendly Shello! Pl

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The stories behind our names

Michael Rosen talks to journalist Sheela Banerjee about the family and cultural histories revealed by our names. In her book What’s in a Name? Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural

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Hear Me Out: Less Porn, More Sex Tapes

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… let’s get it on.Whether you watch porn or not — admit it, or not — adult entertainment shapes the way we think about sex, gender, and power.Our guest today argues th

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Take Tea for the Fever (Rebroadcast) - 31 July 2023

Silence comes in lots of different forms. In fact, says writer Paul Goodman, there are several kinds: There's the noisy silence of resentment and and the helpful, participatory s

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Interview with Biblaridion

George interviews Biblaridionon conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.

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79: A.I. Hype Hosedown (with Emily Bender and Jack Hessel)

Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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Hear Me Out: Learning Gun Safety Could Save Your Kids’ Lives

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… safety on.July sees the most accidental shootings involving children of any month on the calendar — but there’s not really a month where these tragedies don’t happen

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Alligator Mouth - 24 July 2023

Kinbank is a new database that illustrates the global diversity of family terms. English, for example, specifies sibling relationships with just one of two But most other langua

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Audio description: putting art into words

Lonny Evans audio describes in theatres and museums, and Terry James, who is vision impaired, trains audio describers. They talk to Michael about their work.Producer Sally Heaven

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82: Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences

Linguists are often interested in comparing several languages or dialects. To make this easier, it’s useful to have data that’s relatively similar across varieties, so that the differences really pop

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Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky

Irina Morgan is a high level interpreter. Being bi-lingual in Russian and Ukrainian means she's in demand whenever Vladimir Putin or President Zelensky give a press conference requiring simultaneous i

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Hear Me Out: The U.S. Sugar Program Isn’t A Sweet Deal

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… a spoonful of sugar helps the trade protectionism go down.The Farm Bill is up for renewal this year — and there’s a chorus of voices now, as in years past, saying it

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Sun Dog (Rebroadcast) - 17 July 2023

A clever pun can make the difference between a so-so phrase and a memorable one. The phrase “the last straw” refers to an old fable about too many items in a load, but it takes on a whole new meaning

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Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate

Sending someone acare packageshows you care, of course. But the first care packages were boxes of food and personal items for survivors of World War II. They were from the Committee for American Remit3