Bonus 81: Linguistic Advice - Challenging grammar snobs, finding linguistics community, accents in singing, and more (Patreon)

Are there linguistics things in your life that you would like advice about? In honour of our 7th anniversary making Lingthusiasm, this is an episode answering your advice questions, from the serious to the silly.  We're not professional advice columnists but we are professional linguists, and many people have asked us variants of similar questions over the years.

In this bonus episode, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about your linguistics questions! We give advice about how to change people's perspectives on "correct" language, intergenerational slang, amateur research and finding linguistics community and jobs outside academia, learning signed languages from Deaf instructors, singing in different accents, our desire for more research on how podcasts spread linguistic structures, and a lightning round of many more questions!

Read the transcript here.

Announcements:
It' our 7 year anniversary! To help us celebrate we’re asking you to help connect us with people who would be totally into a linguistics podcast, if only they knew it existed. Most people still find podcasts through word of mouth, so we’re asking you to share a link to your favourite episode, or just share Lingthusiasm in general. Tag us on on social media so we can thank you, or if you share in private enjoy the warm fuzzies of our gratitude.

We’re doing our second listener survey! This is our chance to learn about your linguistic interests, and for you to have fun doing a new set of linguistic experiments. If you did the survey last year, the experiment questions are different this year, so feel free to take it again! You can hear about the results of last year’s survey in a bonus episode and we’ll be sharing the results of the new experiments next year. Take the survey here.

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

• Crash Course Linguistics
• Links in the "recovering grammar snob" genre: Literacy Privilege, Why I stopped being a grammar snob, Why grammar snobbery has no place in the movement
• Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children: A Bilingual Introduction (American Sign Language Version with optional English voice over and English text slides)
• The Sociolinguistics of British Pop-song Pronunciation - Peter Trudgill
• Lingthusiasm bonus episode 'Linguistic jobs beyond academia'
• Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list
• Lingthusiasm episode 'Sounds you can’t hear - Babies, accents, and phonemes'
• Wikipedia entry on 'Structural/Syntactic ambiguity'
• Lingthusiasm bonus episode 'Linguistic puzzles for fun and olympiad glory'
• Linguistics League
• All Things Linguistic posts tagged 'high school'
• Lingthusiasm episode 'Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization'
• Whom is like them, it has an 'm' at the end! (No link, just a handy reminder)

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript of this episode is available as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Mastodon. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page. Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

To chat about this episode and other lingthusiastic topics with your fellow linguistics fans, join us on the Lingthusiasm Discord server.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, and our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.