Language & linguistics
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6:34Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language
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1:45What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners
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38:55Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel
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18:27How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
TEDx Talks
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1:45:38The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton
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10:54RSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Royal Society of Arts
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4:13:49Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive
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6:47The US Has More Tribes Than the World Has Countries
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9:01George Carlin - Euphemisms
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18:10A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries
Simon Roper
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47:25Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
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21:05The Zipf Mystery
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6:46The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
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12:04Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"
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2:32Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing
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8:14Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?
Map Men
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18:31Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland
TEDx Talks
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12:44Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time
Vox
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1:42:4723. Language
Stanford
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17:41I made a talking banana
Useless Duck Company
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8:02Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona
jan Misali
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27:44The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)
UW Video
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3:49Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them
Tom Scott
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26:17How to write cuneiform with Irving Finkel and @preservethings I Curator's Corner S4 Ep9
The British Museum
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10:22Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)
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2:50:45Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426
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14:18Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED
WIRED
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27:18Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!
Dr Geoff Lindsey
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32:32Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall
The BXI
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3:51Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions
Tom Scott
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6:00Rhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever
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3:26Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC
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