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hpr0719 :: The Language Frontier Episode 4

What language reveals about you; linguistics; dead languages

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Hosted by Skirlet on Thursday, 2011-05-05 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
language, neologism, accent, spelling, linguistics, dialect. 2.
The show is available on the Internet Archive at: https://archive.org/details/hpr0719

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Duration: 00:18:02

The Language Frontier.

In this miniseries Skirlet discusses various different aspects of language.

Skirlet discusses what language -- the way you speak and write -- suggests about you as a person. She provides a basic intro to linguistics, and reviews some dead languages and why they died.

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Comment #1 posted on 2011-05-07 03:57:05 by JBu92

wait... W. as the current president? how long ago was this recorded?

Comment #2 posted on 2011-05-21 04:22:05 by Lonnie

music

I had to stop the episode a short way into it due to the music being so loud and the voice at a level that was almost silent. I use in ear headphones and it was painful, please adjust. I want to listen to this podcast if you put another one out.

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