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Future Tongues
It has a life of its own, our propensity to talk: always evolving, pivoting in unexpected directions. The sentence that rolled off your tongue or departed your fingertips just a second ago — along with its tone, word choice, its construction — has something especially interesting to say about our world today and years from now. Join Aaron as he tries to better understand the marvel that is language!
Episodes
3 episodes
Contact, Creoles, and Kiezdeutsch (Kiezdeutsch pt. 3) | Philipp Krämer
To be multilingual is to be utterly uninteresting; most of the world's population is multilingual. Interesting, however, is what happens when multilingualism leads to language contact. The resulting innovations can be anything from a mere excha...
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Episode 3
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Speaking Your Identity (Kiezdeutsch pt. 2) | Heike Wiese
Language isn't just a matter of cramming our ideas into a rigid grammar, vocalizing our words, and then voilà, meaning signaled, job done — no, not quite. More than just a convenient communication utility, language informs ourselves — and other...
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Episode 2
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53:29
The Correctness of our Words (Kiezdeutsch pt. 1)
There's a way of speaking German that's existed for barely a few decades, but has caused quite the stir in the German public with debates over what it really should be considered. Linguistics has offered the answer: it's Kiezdeutsch, a fully sy...
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Episode 1
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10:22