8: How Translatable Are Languages? (with Gary Lupyan) - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

Language and culture are intertwined, and a new research project discovers that the meanings of words diverge as culture does.

But this big-data experiment is attracting the ire of anthropologists. Why the friction? Researcher Gary Lupyan joins us for this episode.

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