A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.
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Lexicon Valley #22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Cherokee syllabary.
Lexicon Valley #21: Undocumented Illegals
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the debate over "illegal" versus "undocumented" at the heart of U.S. immigration policy.
Lexicon Valley #20: Death to Potatoes
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo speak with Nataly Kelly, coauthor of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World.
Lexicon Valley #19: Here's to You Mrs. Malaprop
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our mental dictionary.
Lexicon Valley #18: The Rate of Exchange
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others.
Lexicon Valley #17: Ascent of the A-word
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the A-word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years.
Special Announcement from Lexicon Valley
Mike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer.
Lexicon Valley #16: Our Dying Words
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct.
Lexicon Valley #15: Then Is Now, Now and Then
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present.
Lexicon Valley #14: By Their Words You Shall Know Them
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry.