143: How to Kill a Language (with Sophia Smith Galer)

How does it feel to be isolated from a language and a culture that could have been yours? There are many paths to language loss, but there are also many ways back. Language revitalisation is now happening for communities and individuals. We're talking about it with journalist and lingToker Sophia Smith Galer, author of How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words.

Timestamps

00:00 Start

00:34 Intros: How are you "going"?

05:54 News: A font that can poison data for GenAI

13:51 News: A lost Golden Age of language in the Holocene

27:33 News: New language support for Netflix, Disney+

33:59 Related or Not: Theme from Gordon

34:37 Related or Not: ramshackle

41:39 Related or Not: nap

48:57 Related or Not: adder, deer, natter, otter, hydra

54:12 Chat with Sophia Smith Galer: Her language background