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George Lakoff: Moral Politics

University of California Television (UCTV)
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Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language

Built By Matt
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What Languages Sound Like To Foreigners

Sara Forsberg
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Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Le Pietre Rotolanti
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Irving Finkel | The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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Cracking Ancient Codes: Cuneiform Writing - with Irving Finkel

The Royal Institution
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How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity

TEDx Talks
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The Unanswered Question 1973 1 Musical Phonology Bernstein Norton

cagin
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RSA ANIMATE: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Royal Society of Arts
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Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive

thepostarchive
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The US Has More Tribes Than the World Has Countries

CGP Grey
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George Carlin - Euphemisms

poyani
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A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries

Simon Roper
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Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

NativLang
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The Zipf Mystery

Vsauce
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The surprising pattern behind color names around the world

Vox
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Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

suckerpinch
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Stephen Fry on the Joys of Swearing

gsmokeyjoe
Picked by 5 · 2011–2016
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Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?

Map Men
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Video frame: Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland18:31

Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

TEDx Talks
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Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time

Vox
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23. Language

Stanford
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I made a talking banana

Useless Duck Company
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Conlang Critic Episode Twelve: Toki Pona

jan Misali
Picked by 3 · 2020–2023
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The Concept of Language (Noam Chomsky)

UW Video
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Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them

Tom Scott
Picked by 3 · 2013–2015
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How to write cuneiform with Irving Finkel and @preservethings I Curator's Corner S4 Ep9

The British Museum
Picked by 3 · 2023–2025
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Shakespeare: Original pronunciation (The Open University)

OpenLearn from The Open University
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w

jan Misali
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Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs | Lex Fridman Podcast #426

Lex Fridman
Picked by 2 · 2024
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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED

WIRED
Picked by 2 · 2021–2025
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Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!

Dr Geoff Lindsey
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Hacker Interviews: Larry Wall

The BXI
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Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions

Tom Scott
Picked by 3 · 2021–2023
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Rhyme: Why Eminem is one of the most impressive lyricists ever

Library of Alexandria
Picked by 2 · 2014–2022
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Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC

BBC
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