Megan Figueroa: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: I’m Megan Figueroa. It’s hot, Carrie, I was just thinking… Carrie: Oh. Megan: We’re going to record and I’m going to sound so dull and boring because it’s summer doldrums. It’s so hard here. Carrie: I know. I feel very extra lazy. Megan: Yes. Carrie: It gets like over… I don’t know, body temperature. Megan: Fair enough. Not only that, but it was like close to above dog body temperature the other day, which is like 101 or something. Carrie: Oh, I was just go ..read more

Megan : Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries podcast. The podcast about linguistic discrimination.  Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon.   Megan : And I’m Megan Figueroa. Hey, Carrie. How’s it going?   Carrie : Well, you know, it’s all right. Megan: It’s all right. Yes. It’s spring here. It’s totally spring here. It’s, oh, it’s daylight savings time. So we’re on the same, hour the same day. Carrie :  Again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, it’s like another winter here. Well, I think it’s warmer again, but like this last week, it was winter again. It’s, it was snowing on Wednesday. I ..read more

Megan Figueroa: Hey, and welcome to The Vocal Fries Podcast. The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: I’m Megan Figueroa. We have a sexiest accent problem again. Carrie: That makes it sound like we’ve talked about before, but I don’t think we have [crosstalk] that it comes up [crosstalk] a lot. Megan: The world has a sexiest accent problem again. Yeah. I feel like it comes up every, I don’t know, maybe it’s like traveling season or something because It always seems to be like these travel blogs or it seems to be people that are like, here are places to vis ..read more

Carrie Gillon: This podcast episode is sponsored by the Social Life of Language, which is an open access educational YouTube channel designed to bring complex, theoretical academic work on language into the realm of public discourse in a way that is simple but never simplified. Megan Figueroa: Hi and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa, and here we are in 2024. Carrie: 2024! Megan: Who knows what this year’s going to be like? Carrie: Who’s to say it starting off bad. Megan: Yes. It’s ..read more

Carrie:  Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan: I’m Megan Figueroa.  Carrie: And I’m Carrie Gillon.  Megan: This week we have so much about words.  Carrie: Yes, words, words, words. Megan: We’re word fiends, which is true anyway, but now we get to share it with the words. Carrie: Yes, yes. So not only do we have an interview with Lexicographer about a book about words, but dictionary.com just dropped a mass. They just dropped a tone of new words into the dictionary, and I’m really excited about a lot of  t ..read more

Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast. The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie: And I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: So we went like a little bit viral. Carrie: Mini viral. Megan: Mini viral. I mean, that’s what I live for. Just want to be getting them viral. The hits. That sounds weird. I don’t know. Carrie: Yes, it does. Megan: But we wrote a little piece in response to a little piece in The Atlantic by John McWhorter, linguist, about a thing he calls Kids Speak. Carrie: I am so disappointed in that article that he wrote. It is suc ..read more

Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Book of Fries podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa: Hi, I’m Megan Figueroa. Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: Hey, it’s actually cold here today. Carrie: Oh, really? Megan: Yeah, we’re actually experiencing some winter. By that, I mean, it’s going to be 68 degrees. Carrie: That’s not winter, not even for there. That’s like…. Megan: I know. Well, though, tell that to my body Carrie. I’m pretty cold, but no, it’s unseasonally warm here. I’m trying to pretend like it’s winter, but it’s climate change. Carrie: I mean, 60 it’s l ..read more

Carrie Gillon: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa: And I’m Megan Figueroa.  Carrie: I want to thank all the people who’ve been becoming patrons this month.  Megan: Yeah.  Carrie: It’s great. I think this is our biggest month so far, and if you want to help us out as well, that’d be great, because again, we really want to pay for someone to transcribe our episodes.  Megan: Yes.  Carrie: The first thing on earth to do, we want lists, we want this, and we will to do it. Megan: Y ..read more

Carrie : Firebreathing Kittens is an actual play one-shot podcast that plays various tabletop role-playing games with a season-long plot. Because of such a beginning and an end to each week’s story, you can start at any episode. Every week has a different combination of four from the same rotating cast group of people. Join Firebreathing Kittens as they solve detective mysteries, attempt comedic banter, and enjoy friendship.  Megan: Hi and welcome to The Vocal Fries Pod podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination.  Carrie: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan: And I’m Megan Figueroa ..read more

Megan: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I’m Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa: I’m Megan Figueroa, and if you notice, Carrie. Carrie: You just rolled your R. I just said my name like my people do. Megan: Listen, that was awesome. Carrie: I’ve been thinking about this all week because, my girl AOC out here protecting her right to say her name, the way she wants to say her name, because that’s our human to do. Megan: I know. She literally could pronounce it any way she wanted to pronounce it anyway. Carrie: Yeah. I thought, this ..read more