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


The Vocal Fries

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk about Makaton, an artificial sign-based system, particularly <a href='https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/signed-away-novic'>Sara Novič's article </a>about it. <a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Trapped in Makaton

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk about random words that are scary or scary-adjacent.<ul><li><a href='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism'>facsism</a></li><li><a href='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eldritch'>eldritch</a></li><li><a href='https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5580542/ghost-etymology-halloween-spooky-season'>ghost</a></li><li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99raFb-vxro'>vampire</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Scary Words for a Scary World

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>We have a few things to say about Pinker.<ul><li>Part of the <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5Xkk6TuE'>War on Science</a></li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct'>The Language Instinct</a></li><li>Pinker on <a href='https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6INhyTH_UPaSC3OUwq8g5SEhTSFGHyG-'>Race Realism</a></li><li>Co-authored paper on <a href='https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166115'>overregularization</a></li><li>The <a href='https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZqWl5grm_F5Kn_0OarY9Q2jlOnk200PvhM5e3isPvY'>Open Letter</a> to the LSA</li><li>The <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/steven-pinker-harvard.html'>article</a> that Carrie was interviewed for, but not named, about the Open Letter</li><li>Our episode on <a href='https://www.buzzsprout.com/admin/1930383/episodes/15631304-dogwhistles-and-other-fig-leaves'>dogwhistling</a></li><li><a href='https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/'>The Harper's Letter</a></li><li><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast'>Guardian</a> on his appearance on Aporia</li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Peven Stinker

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with <a href='https://www.etymologynerd.com/'>Adam Aleksic</a> about his new book, <a href='https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776856/algospeak-by-adam-aleksic/'>Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language</a>.<ul><li><a href='https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260'>Bromism and ChatGPT</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Algospeak

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with <a href='https://megancreynolds.com/'>Megan C. Reynolds</a>, <a href='https://www.dwell.com/'>Dwell</a> magazine editor, about her  book, <a href='https://www.harpercollins.com/products/like-megan-c-reynolds?variant=43182606647330'>Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word</a>.<ul><li><a href='https://www.eurasiareview.com/14062025-putin-turns-to-linguistics-like-dictators-before-him-analysis/'>Putin and Russian</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

A History of Like

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with <a href='https://www.umu.se/en/staff/voet-paulette/'>Paulette van der Voet</a> and <a href='https://www.umu.se/en/staff/martina-terrazzano/'>Martina Terrazzano</a>, PhD students at the <a href='https://www.umu.se/'>University of Umea</a>, about their class called<a href='https://www.umu.se/en/education/courses/linguistics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/'> “Linguistics and the Eurovision Song Contest”.</a><ul><li><a href='https://www.smoothradio.com/news/music/eurovision/best-songs-ever-list/'>Top 20 Eurovision songs</a></li><li><a href='https://uk.news.yahoo.com/eurovision-2025-controversy-israel-boycott-palestine-malta-140353388.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABrZMc4wjQG37-z9ebCY5QmNsLIuXGSlU5wgqeCxcArY1QlJQOaryz4ckYimrpdpz8vQ8sBIktS7i8ItpCqTtSs4Q_GI5_gilRW8UKIuRHQ4VxrUB23e0OXonP9dKPyrsBlTE9EZZYRSekV_-rI8ghYxFVKuvFO1b7uSJvseivDh'>Malta and Estonia</a></li></ul> <a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Serving Language Ideologies

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>We talk with <a href='https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1852674'>Dr Lorna Gibb </a>about her newest book, <a href='https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691274171/rare-tongues'>Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages</a>.Steven Pinker:<ul><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html'>Harvard Derangement Syndrome</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/steven-pinker-harvard.html'>vs. LSA</a></li><li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GexZF5VIMU'>Jews and IQ</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Rare Tongues

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with Drs <a href='https://linguistics.washington.edu/people/emily-m-bender'>Emily M. Bender,</a> Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and <a href='https://www.alex-hanna.com/'>Alex Hanna</a>, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), about their new book, <a href='https://thecon.ai/'>The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want</a>, out May 13, 2025.<ul><li><a href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con-virtual-book-launch-tickets-1330295943979'>Virtual Book Launch</a> May 8, 2025, 2-4 PDT</li><li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIQVaSS5Pg'>Bender v. Bubeck</a></li><li><a href='https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/0260cf56-3644-4102-bc2f-dd941ad69ea9'>Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century</a></li><li><a href='https://bsky.app/profile/roxanegay.bsky.social/post/3lnl44usnus2m'>Roxane Gay's anti-AI stance</a></li><li><a href='https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636'>The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence </a></li><li><a href='http://www.biolinguagem.com/ling_cog_cult/reddy_1979_conduit_metaphor.pdf'>The Conduit Metaphor</a></li><li><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html'>Kevin Roose's Conversation with Bing</a></li><li><a href='https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417'>Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 </a></li></ul>Intro:<ul><li><a href='https://theworld.org/segments/2025/04/16/uk-rules-the-legal-definition-of-a-woman-under-equality-law-excludes-transgender-women'>UK ruling on the legal definition of "woman"</a></li><li><a href='https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/17/jk-rowling-says-i-love-a-plan-comes-together-supreme-court-result-22927389/'>JK Rowling looking smug</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

The AI Con

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with <a href='https://www.gabehenry.com/'>Gabe Henry</a> about his new book, <a href='https://www.harpercollins.com/products/enough-is-enuf-gabe-henry?variant=43016542715938'>Enough is enuf: Our failed attempts to make English eezier to spell</a>.<ul><li><a href='https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/puerto-rico-worries-trump-english-official-language-rcna194249'>Puerto Rico and English as an Official Language</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Enough is Enuf

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with <a href='https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/groche'>Dr Gerald Roche</a>, Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University, about his new book, <a href='https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501777806/html'>The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet</a>, language oppression, solidarity, China and Tibet. <ul><li><a href='https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=468'>LSA's response</a> to the <a href='https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/'>EO on English as the Official Language of the US</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

Language Oppression in Tibet

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Megan and Carrie talk with <a href='https://www.canzanella.net/'>Massimiliano Canzanella </a>about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy.<ul><li><a href='https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-08/asian-communities-faced-language-barriers-during-l-a-wildfires-ucla-study-says'>Asian languages and the LA fires</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

The Italian N-Word

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Carrie and Megan talk with Dr <a href='https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abenkato/about.html'>Adam Benkato</a>, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, about Arabic.<ul><li>codeswitching in <a href='https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/research-and-ideas/linguistic-study-conducted-at-san-quentin-reveals-communication-changes-among-incarcerated-individuals/article_6f167cac-cbf3-11ef-8ce1-633d5194d761.html'>incarceration</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

matkunsh 7mar

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1930383/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Megan and Carrie talk to Dr <a href='https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/sociology-and-anthropology/faculty/ayala-fader/'>Ayala Fader</a>, professor of anthropology at Fordham University, and Dr <a href='https://www.maestromikemena.com/'>Mike Mena</a>, Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, about their new project, the <a href='https://demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/'>Demystifying Language Project,</a> where academics and high school students work together to rewrite linguistic articles into more accessible versions. First article: <a href='https://demystifyinglanguage.fordham.edu/articles/speech-or-silence/'>Speech or Silence</a> Intro from our patron René:<ul><li><a href='https://www.barrons.com/news/german-mp-makes-first-address-to-chamber-in-sign-language-8f8b0918'>Barron's</a>: MP makes her first speech in sign language</li><li><a href='https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bundestag-rede-des-jahres-in-gebaerdensprache-li.3165636'>Speech of the year</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/vocalfriespod">Support the show</a>Contact us: <ul> <li>Threads us <a href='https://www.threads.net/@vocalfriespod'>@vocalfriespod</a> </li> <li>Bluesky us <a href='https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyvda3kefsnksrdyhfaadtik'>@vocalfriespod.bsky.social</a> </li> <li>Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com</li> </ul> Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on

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Trapped in Makaton

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Scary Words for a Scary World

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Peven Stinker

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Algospeak

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A History of Like

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Serving Language Ideologies

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Rare Tongues

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The AI Con

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Enough is Enuf

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Language Oppression in Tibet

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The Italian N-Word

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matkunsh 7mar

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Demystifying Language