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How many times do you kiss on the cheek when greeting a friend in France? Check out this map from Buzzarena's guide (and get ready for 5 smooches in Corsica!) For more on the linguistics of kissing, check out our latest bonus ep: patreon.com/posts/127782696 buzzarena.com/comment-bien-f…

Want to know what kind of jobs people go on to do after a linguistics degree? Join us on Patreon for a bonus episode about all the cool things people have done with their linguistics training patreon.com/posts/83814530

Last year we interviewed @emilymbender.bsky.social about how computers process language Her book, The AI Con, written with Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا), is out now! lingthusiasm.com/post/767803572…

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If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy listening to our past episode on politeness? Or, if you’d prefer a less polite version, “Listen! Now!” lingthusiasm.com/post/770341545…

A rabbit scurries by, and someone points at it and says "Gavagai!" Do they mean "rabbit", "scurrying creature", or even "lo, undetached rabbit parts!"? Pay tribute to this classic linguistic thought experiment from WVO Quine in our Gavagai merch redbubble.com/i/pouch/Gavaga…

We've made a tongue-in-cheek quiz that transforms your answers to questions like "You're about to start a massive Lingthusiasm listening marathon. Pick a beverage to sustain you" into a Highly Accurate Window Into Your Personality bit.ly/lingthusiasmqu…

To celebrate our 100th episode we put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics! Join us for this past episode as we talk about brains, gesture, etymology, famous example sentences, a few cool facts about the word “hundred” and way more lingthusiasm.com/post/772874257…