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Mike Vuolo
Mike Vuolo is a radio and podcast producer and the host of Lexicon Valley.
Articles By Mike Vuolo
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How Jews Grew Horns
Listen to Slate’s show about the all-important role that language translation (and mistranslation) plays in our lives.
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Who You Callin’ A**hole?
Slate’s show about Geoffrey Nunberg’s new book Ascent of the A-Word, now with transcripts.
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Talking About the Past in the Present Tense
Listen to Slate’s show about Seinfeld’s masterful use of a time-honored narrative technique.
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Does Your Writing Style Have a Fingerprint?
Listen to Slate’s show about the surprising way mathematicians can determine authorship.
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“Lord Grantham, Don Draper’s on Hold”
The algorithm that finds anachronisms in Downton Abbey, Mad Men, and Edith Wharton.
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Was Honest Abe a Poet?
How Lincoln’s speaking style evolved from overly ornate to the brilliant simplicity of Gettysburg.
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“The House is Building”?
Why you never learned the passival tense, even though it used to be proper English grammar.
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For He/She’s a Jolly Bad Pronoun
Listen to Slate’s show about whether English needs a gender-neutral alternative.
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How English Lost Its Genders
Listen to Slate’s show about how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
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When Nouns Grew Genitals
Listen to Slate’s show about what it means for language to have gender.
