Back in 2017, when I was deep in the writing process for Because Internet, I was feeling stuck on the emoji chapter and Lauren Gawne, my cohost on the then-baby Lingthusiasm podcast (we were less than a year old!) offered to read the current draft. I’ll never forget her comment that led to me rewriting… Continue reading April, May, & June 2025: Lauren writes a gesture book!→| Gretchen McCulloch
In the first few months of 2025, we celebrated a podcast milestone: 100 episodes of Lingthusiasm, a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics! To celebrate, my cohost Lauren Gawne and I did a special double-feature: our 100th episode had 100 “fun fact” reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics (including a few from former guests) and our… Continue reading January, February, and March 2025: 100th Lingthusiasm episode→| Gretchen McCulloch
In 2024, I traveled to Europe to speak at several events, including the launch of the Spanish translation of Because Internet. I started studying American Sign Language through the Lethbridge Layto…| Gretchen McCulloch
Lingthusiasm was featured in the New York Times’ list of 5 Podcasts for Word Nerds! And here’s print evidence that it happened. The show is often as much about social habits as it…| Gretchen McCulloch
This summer I spent time with Finnish, Spanish, Estonian, Dutch, Italian, Latin (unexpectedly!), and… well, okay, kind of all of them, at least in museum exhibit form. So I did what any linguist wo…| Gretchen McCulloch
In official research news, during the second quarter of 2024, the Crash Course Linguistics team published a case study on how the series came together, called Creating Inclusive Linguistics Communi…| Gretchen McCulloch
In the first three months of 2024, I attended the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New York City — home, as always, of the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year vo…| Gretchen McCulloch
What I did in 2023: a pretty typical year with some podcasting, some conferences, some book recs, some silly example sentences, and a move to bluesky… Continue reading 2023 Year in Review→| Gretchen McCulloch
What I did in the last quarter of 2023: 2 conferences, 2 Tom Scott videos, 3 novels, 7 years of Lingthusiasm, and a Shakespeare humour audiobook recorded| Gretchen McCulloch
My newsletter for August-September 2023: Etymology isn’t Destiny merch and an academic article about lingcomm| Gretchen McCulloch