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78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Challenge of Identifying Gender in a Virtual World

The gender of every the 13 over 13,000 characters is is manually coded. Some creatures are not male or female at all. And some are a bit like we mostly think of link in the Zelda enterprises as male,. But I've heard some of the game creators say, yeah, neutral little adventurer. That's right. Okay. So how did you find out who says what? Is there a script has somebody catalogued all the dialogue exhaustively for all these games? It was an immense challenge. Sean did phenomenal technical work and then I spent a lot of time on YouTube.

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