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Allusionist 63: Evolution of Accents

September 15, 2017 The Allusionist
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"Accent is identity. It's a way of encoding and signaling - almost completely at an unconscious level for most people - who they feel like they are, who they want to be seen as, what group they feel like they belong to."

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In episodes Tags words, language, accents, speaking, voices, spoken language
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Allusionist 9: The Space Between

April 22, 2015 The Allusionist
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I know this is a show about words, but forget the words for a moment; look at the spaces between the words. 

Without the spaces, the words would be nigh incomprehensible. And yet, they're a relatively recent linguistic innovation.

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In episodes Tags language, words, Anglo-Saxon, Old English, Latin, Irish, Ireland, scribes, monks, medieval, Normans, spaces, punctuation, layout, nombril, disgruntled, gruntled, runes, runic, Ogham, Kate Wiles, history, writing, text, manuscripts, Old Irish, Romans, Christianity, email, URLs, hashtags, internet, Aristophanes, spelling, letters, phonemes, Chinese, oral tradition, spoken language, reading, pauses, lower case, upper case, majuscule, capital letters, carving, inscriptions, Anchorman, quills
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