322: Sense of Direction (featuring Alice Gaby) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

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Interview with Alice Gaby about how speakers of Marshallese change the way they talk about direction. Also, apprehensives: the particle… OF FEAR. In the news, research teases bias out of big data — and may be able to reverse it in natural language processing. Words of the Week: ghost net, eSwatini, numbnuts. Plus: Why do we say "googy egg"? Why do we call children "kids"?

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