John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) | Conversations with Tyler
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- Опубликовано: 20 ноя 2023
- Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind of fast, thoughtful, and energetic response? Listeners of Lexicon Valley (slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-va...) might hazard a guess: John McWhorter. A prominent academic linguist, he’s also highly regarded for his podcast and popular writings across countless books and articles where often displays a deep knowledge in topics beyond his academic training.
John joined Tyler to discuss why he thinks that colloquial Indonesian should be the world's universal language, the barbaric circumstances that gave rise to Creole languages, the reason Mandarin won't overtake English as the lingua franca, how the Vikings shaped modern English, the racial politics of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, the decline of American regional accents, why Shakespeare needs an English translation, Harold Arlen vs. Andrew Lloyd Webber, whether reparations for African-Americans is a good idea, how living in Jackson Heights shapes his worldview, what he learned from his mother and father, why good linguistics students enjoy both Russian and Chinese, and more.
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Recorded February 17th, 2020
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Finnish mentioned! I am from Finland and I love John. This was also a really fun interview - and I have a heard a LOT of interviews with him. I should start listening to John's language podcast too.
Lexicon Valley is awesome, highly recommend for a listen.
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What a sparkling and intelligent conversation. How dare the interviewer thoroughly prepare for a formidable guest this way? I'm used to deeply troubled RUclipsrs winging it and using interviews with accomplished subjects to share their personal insecurities in awkward ways. But this...this stunned me! Sarcasm aside, outstanding interview. Thank you!
Guessing this from early 2020...
Quite good. Thanks!
Long term follower and big admirer of both men.
Not sure if i missed this in my podcast feed or had just forgotten.
I would love to hear John talk about the poetry of Frank O'Hara, who had a poetic love affair with nyc