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more existing linguistics zines we have several printable pdfs here by both us and other people and share it however you want a few ideas that people have told us about so far giving out zines at picnics making a take a zine folder in a busy corridor at school or work handing out zines at conferences pop a zine in the mail to an old friend using zines as a colouring and folding activity with a linguistics club leaving zines at a local zine store s free shelf stashing some zines in a local little free library you can borrow one of these ideas or come up with your own just share a zine with at least one person 2 make your own linguistics y zine make your own zine about something you love about linguistics and show it to people maybe it s something you learned from a lingthusiasm episode another lingcomm creator a linguistics class a pop linguistics book a wikipedia rabbit hole a research paper your own linguistic research or some aspect of your own linguistic experience you want to tell people about we recommend this minizine style to start out with if you ve never made a zine before but all zine formats are welcome then tell us about it whichever kind of zine you choose to share we want to know how it went tell us your linguistics zine stories through this little webform and you can win prizes we re planning a special bonus episode of lingthusiasm sharing some of your linguistics zine stories and we re also hoping to add some of the new zines to the lingthusiasm zines page so there are options in the form to give us permission for that you can still win prizes either way we also love to see your zine posts on social media just tag lingthusiasm during or after the challenge but prizes are all happening via the form so we don t miss anyone prizes once all the entries are in we ll read them all and award prizes the prize list so far includes keep reading 5 days ago 101 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google linguistics zines linguistic zine challenge announcements lingthusiasm anniversary 10th anniversary if anyone s been thinking of getting a meat clarinet t shirt ipa scarf or other lingthusiasm merch redbubble is currently having a 25 off sale with the code bubble25 until october 25th 5 days ago 19 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google linguistics merch redbubble we have so much cool linguistics merch now it was genuinely hard to pick what should go in this post so here are some random selections click thru if you like browsing linguistics nerd merch i guess not trying to spam just genuinely recognizing redbubble can be a bit expensive and hopefully the sales help with that bonus 116 everything is linguistics the randomest pitches from our inbox lingthusiasm we know you re here for a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics but perhaps you d also be interested in some tax advice or some br patreon bonus 116 everything is linguistics the randomest pitches from our inbox we know you re here for a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics but perhaps you d also be interested in some tax advice or some bridal lingerie or some lithium mining technology okay probably not but that hasn t stopped the lovely folks whose job it is to pitch things from sending us hopeful emails trying to convince us to tell you about these and many more curious topics in possibly the silliest bonus episode we ve ever done gretchen and lauren get enthusiastic about the most deeply irrelevant pitch emails we have somehow ended receiving after almost 10 years of podcasting and find creative ways to make them all somehow about linguistics anyway don t worry we ve redacted all the names of the actual brands so we can poke fun without feeling like we re actually getting salesy on you and so no one sues us listen to this episode about the most deeply irrelevant pitch emails in our inbox and how we make them about linguistics anyway and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting lingthusiasm on patreon 1 week ago 55 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google linguistics language lingthusiasm podcast podcasts bonus bonus episodes bonuses bonus 116 email pitches advertising everything is linguistics etymology tax advice bridal lingerie lithium mining technology yep all of them are actually about linguistics let us tell you how how to fold your mini zine a lingthusiasm zine this month s zine is for everyone not just the linguistics enthusiasts with our editor leah velleman and artist lucy maddox we ve put together a mini zine about how to fold mini zines we always say feel free to share but we extra super mean it this time this is for anyone anywhere who wants to share this cool little art form with any community at all please scan it copy it print it fold it share it rearrange it bundle it with your own zines borrow your favorite bits of it with credit please and give it to anyone you think might find it useful for any reason print cut and fold your own letter paper a4 paper more from lingthusiasm read our zines about linguistics we also make a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics support these zines and more linguistics enthusiasm on patreon 2 weeks ago 411 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google lingthusiasm linguistics zines diy diy projects transcript episode 120 how not to kill a language interview with sophia smith galer this is a transcript for lingthusiasm episode how not to kill a language interview with sophia smith galer it s been lightly edited for readability listen to the episode her e or wherever you get your podcasts links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on the episode show notes pag e music gretchen welcome to lingthusiasm a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics i m gretchen mcculloch today we re getting enthusiastic about many ways people are fighting to reclaim their languages around the world with sophia smith galer who s a journalist and content creator whose work focuses on language technology and culture she s the author of how to kill a language she s based in london uk first our most recent bonus episode takes you behind the zines we ve been having fun making several different linguistics themed zines now we chat with our very own technical editor leah velleman about the work she s been doing with me behind the scenes to bring those lingthusiasm zines to life go to patreon com lingthusiasm to listen to this and over 100 bonus episodes and also to see and give comments on the next zines before anyone else music gretchen hi sophia welcome to lingthusiasm sophia hello thank you so much for having me gretchen thank you for being here before we get into your work and your book we re gonna start with a question we ask all of our guests which is how did you get interested in linguistics sophia i loved languages before i ever loved journalism it was the first thing that i studied i did spanish and arabic as my undergraduate degree and before that had spent my childhood and adolescence being fascinated by the languages that were available to me in my school that was spanish french and latin then at home i grew up listening to my mum and my nonna speak to each other in a glittering array of languages in the book we re about to discuss i quite naively thought that that was english and italian there in fact was another language hiding in there lying in wait for me i really had quite a rich linguistic soundscape growing up and then through all of my student experiences i went on to become an international news reporter my languages came in pretty handy but maybe not as often as you d think they would be in demand perhaps that s because i worked in a british newsroom where everyone s very focused on english gretchen there s a lot of reporting on things happening in other countries but interviewing people who speak english in those countries and things like that sophia exactly i can remember both i had two newsroom jobs one was at the bbc and the other was at vice news i can remember scenarios in both reporter roles where i found a story because i was the first english speaking journalist to identify it because i had been able to access it in the target language as it were gretchen that s really helpful sophia yeah really helpful i can remember instances where i was perhaps able to build rapport quite quickly with someone because i could tell we had a language in common it came in useful in sneaky surprising instances but it s not like day to day i had editors saying hey sophia we could use some of your language skills right now please that didn t happen as often as i had hoped it would i was always really interested in language but it became this tool in my wider skillset that was sometimes used sometimes under used i desperately tried to keep them going it was in 2019 when i became the first bbc journalist to use tiktok i was a video journalist at the time it was quite different for journalists to be using at that point i was one of the only ones in the uk never mind the only one at the bbc the only person really doing it properly was dave jorgenson at the washington post famously in the us gretchen i remember that guy sophia yeah i did it for a bit i basically kept going viral i kept getting into trouble for not doing anything naughty at the bbc because the bbc s just like that i kept being told to be careful with my tiktoks even though they were never breaking any guidelines eventually i got told please stop putting bbc journalism on there i thought okay well i can t put bbc journalism on there but that doesn t mean i can t tiktok full stop i started making language explainers because i loved languages they were my biggest hobby and passion i thought well okay if i can t talk about my work what else do i know about i started making video explainers about language and that s how i properly got into the sort of linguistics space gretchen you wrote a book called how to kill a language which i very much enjoyed reading let s do the little elevator pitch what is how to kill a language about in a nutshell sophia it s about language loss and erasure it s about a phenomenon called linguicide which might be a word listeners have not heard before if i achieve anything with this books it s to popularise it as a term gretchen linguicide referring to the death of a language sophia the suppression or erasure of a language it s my journey travelling around the world gaining an understanding of why languages seem to be disappearing at an unprecedented rate keep reading 3 weeks ago 9 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google linguistics lingthusiasm language podcast podcasts episode 120 transcripts interview sophia smith galer how to kill a language linguicide language preservation language revitalisation bonus 115 behind the zines interview with leah velleman lingthusiasm we ve been hearing from people that you re trying to get others to be as enthusiastic about linguistics as you are but it can be sort of ha patreon bonus 115 behind the zines interview with leah velleman we ve been hearing from people that you re trying to get others to be as enthusiastic about linguistics as you are but it can be sort of hard to make the podcasts you re into leap off your phone and into people s hands zines small diy magazines are a cute tactile format currently undergoing a renaissance shoutout to anyone who was around for the nineties zine wave or an even earlier one so we ve made some lingthusiasm zines that you can print off and share with people in your life or scatter around and hope people might pick up links to all the zines so far are below if you want to see them right now but in this bonus episode gretchen and lauren go behind the zines with our technical editor leah velleman you might recognize her name from the end credits about the process behind making the first four lingthusiasm zines we talk about how leah got into linguistics through lord of the rings and conlanging her pivot from phd fieldwork to technical editing and a very brief history of zines we also talk about why leah decided to go rogue with the formatting for her diminuitive zine about diminuitives where the meat clarinet comes from and comedic timing for most effectively offering people zines finally a sneak peek at some future zine topics we re working on and at our upcoming anniversary plans so you can start scheming with us listen to this behind the zines episode with our technical editor leah velleman about the process behind making the first four lingthusiasm zines and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting lingthusiasm on patreon 1 month ago 12 notes share on facebook share on twitter share on pinterest share on google linguistics language lingthusiasm podcast podcasts bonus bonus episodes bonuses bonus 115 behind the zines interview leah velleman zines linguistic zines transcript episode 119 irregularity is all over the place this is a transcript for lingthusiasm episode irregularity is all over the place it s been lightly edited for readability listen to the episode her e or wherever you get your podcasts links to studies mentioned and further reading can be found on the episode show notes pag e music gretchen welcome to lingthusiasm a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics i m gretchen mcculloch lauren i m lauren gawne today we re getting enthusiastic about irregularity and the consistent inconsistency of language but first we have new merch gretchen okay backstory we ve used the metaphor of a musical instrument several times when talking about how the human vocal tract is organised and how you can change the shape of your mouth as the air is on the way out which changes what the air sounds like which is true for both the mouth and a musical instrument lauren we ve used a couple of different musical instruments as metaphors the meat clarinet the meat bassoon the meat bagpipe gretchen but i just can t get that original imagery of the meat clarinet out of my head maybe it s because i played clarinet in high school who knows lauren has very generously allowed me to persuade her that what we really need in our lives is some art of the human vocal tract and a clarinet merged together in meat colours lauren to be clear you need this in your life this art is deeply cursed and i will not be buying any gretchen this art speaks to my soul our artist lucy maddox did an amazing job knocked it out of the park as usual lingthusiasm patrons can even see behind the scenes some stetches of the several horrifying meat textures that she offered us as we were coming up with this design lauren truly one of the most terrifying design briefs i have ever had to write gretchen go have a look at the meat clarinet available on all lingthusiasm social media and tell us if you love or hate it lauren as people have pointed out this is not actually an anato...