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Mike Vuolo
Articles By Mike Vuolo
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Do You Creak?
Listen to Slate’s show about the much-reviled phenomenon, prominent among young American women, of “creaky voice.”
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Why Fiscal Cliff Is Such a Powerful Metaphor
Listen to Slate’s show about the ubiquity of spatial metaphors in our language.
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Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper
The illiterate Cherokee man who invented the alphabet for his language.
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From “Wetbacks” to “Illegals” to “Undocumented” to … ?
Listen to Slate’s show about the heated debate over language at the heart of U.S. immigration policy.
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Malapropisms: the Pineapple of Linguistic Errors
What misspeaking might reveal about the way our mental dictionary is organized.
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Are Some Languages “Faster” Than Others?
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the widespread belief that other languages are spoken more rapidly than your own.
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Should We Care When a Language Dies?
Listen to Slate’s show about what we stand to lose when a language goes extinct.
