

The Vocal Fries
The Vocal Fries
The monthly podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk. Support this podcast at www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod
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Nov 7, 2022 • 1h 3min
Brasse pa lamèrd
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Jonathan "radbwa faroush" Myers and Adrien Guillory-Chatman, members of the first Wikitongues cohort, about Kouri-Vini, aka Louisiana Creole, a French Creole spoken mainly in Louisiana. Collins' WOTY22A discussion of Ukrainian to English transliterationDictionary.com's new wordsLearn Kouri-ViniSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Oct 17, 2022 • 58min
Cruz Control
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Maureen Kosse, linguistics PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder, about her paper "Ted Cruz Cucks Again", the origins and meaning of "cuck", white supremacy, antisemitism, and the alt-right.Check out The Story of Woman podcast Carrie mentions in the introThe Authority GapMorality of AbortionSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Sep 19, 2022 • 55min
Evil Sorting Hat of Whiteness
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr JPB Gerald, host of Unstandardized English, a podcast about language teaching, race, and whiteness, about his new book Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness.Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript:https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3gSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Aug 29, 2022 • 1h 4min
The Duct Tape of Language
Send us a textYou asked for it and it finally happened: the You're Wrong About/Vocal Fries crossover event is here.Carrie and Megan talk with Sarah Marshall about bimbos, vocal fry, the word "like" and many other things. Want to edit video or audio? Try Descript:https://www.descript.com?lmref=H1fP3gSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Aug 8, 2022 • 58min
Bulls, apes, bats and chickens
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Kory Stamper, lexicographer extraordinaire, about the history and use of the word "bullsh*t".Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Jul 11, 2022 • 57min
The Rickford Files
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with Dr. John Rickford, emeritus professor at Stanford, about his memoir, Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language, growing up in Guyana, moving to the United States, and his love of linguistics and Black Talk.Fifth anniversary sign upSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Jun 13, 2022 • 1h 5min
Make Grammar Cool Again
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Drs Andreea Calude and Laurie Bauer about their new textbook Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language and their edited volume Questions about Language: What Everybody Should Know about Language in the 21st Century.This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription:FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only)FF-EU-FRIES (EU server, https://eu.findingfive.com only)Redemption of code expires on August 31, 2022, midnight EDTSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

May 30, 2022 • 51min
Reawakening Pentlatch
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with the Working Pentlatch Revitalization team (Mathew Andreatta, Jessie Recalma, Chief Michael Recalma, and Dr Su Urbanczyk) about their work on reawakening Pentlatch, a Coast Salish language on Vancouver Island.This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription:FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only)FF-EU-FRIES (EU server, https://eu.findingfive.com only)Redemption of code expires on August 31, 2022, midnight EDTSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

May 16, 2022 • 1h
John Mary Bill Sue
Send us a textMegan and Carrie talk with Dr Hadas Kotek, a linguist at Apple, about two of her papers: Gender bias in linguistics textbooks: Has anything changed since Macaulay & Brice 1997? and Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences. See the two graphs Hadas had us look at here.This episode is sponsored by FindingFive, a tech non-profit.Promotional code for listeners of the Vocal Fries for a complimentary one-month Pro subscription:FF-US-FRIES (US server, https://www.findingfive.com only)FF-EU-FRIES (EU server, https://eu.findingfive.com only)Redemption of code expires on August 31, 2022, midnight EDTSupport the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

May 2, 2022 • 1h 5min
Tongues
Send us a textCarrie and Megan talk with two of the editors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging Through Language, Eufemia Fantetti, Professor of English at Humber College, and Ayelet Tsabari, who teaches creative writing at the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph and University of King’s College, about their new book, writing in English as a second language, Molisan, Hebrew, and Yemeni Arabic.Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on


