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Season 1

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1857612
  • Created July 28, 2020
  • Modified November 14, 2024
When available, episode names will be translated into your preferred language. Otherwise they will be shown using the series' origin language.
Name First Aired Runtime Image
S01E01 Why Jonathan Ross Can´t Pronounce His Rs
May 24, 2013
YouTube
 3
S01E02 Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language
May 31, 2013
 4
S01E03 All The Colours, Including Grue: How Languages See Colours Differently
June 7, 2013
 3
S01E04 Why You Swear in Anglo-Saxon and Order Fancy Food in French: Registers
June 14, 2013
 3
S01E05 There's Nothing Wrong With Saying "10 Items or Less": Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism
June 21, 2013
 3
S01E06 Ghoti and the Ministry of Helth: Spelling Reform
June 28, 2013
 3
S01E07 Gender Neutral Pronouns: They're Here, Get Used To Them
July 5, 2013
 4
S01E08 Mele Kalikimaka: Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian
July 12, 2013
 2
S01E09 Why Do We Have "Ye Olde"? Obsolete Letters, and the Mysteries of Ye Olde Ming
December 4, 2013
 4
S01E10 Adjectival Order: Why A "Big Red Balloon", not a "Red Big Balloon"?
December 11, 2013
 2
S01E11 Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?
December 17, 2013
 3
S01E12 Making Flaps Vibrate In Your Throat: Voicing
December 20, 2013
 3
S01E13 Why Computers Suck At Translation
May 21, 2015
 5
S01E14 Crash Blossoms and Being Drunk: Ambiguity
May 28, 2015
 5
S01E15 Why Can't Adults Learn Languages Like Children?
June 4, 2015
 4
S01E16 Long and Short Words: Language Typology
June 11, 2015
 5
S01E17 What Counts as a Word?
June 18, 2015
 4
S01E18 why typing like this is sometimes okay.
July 15, 2019
 5
S01E19 Why “No Problem” Can Seem Rude: Phatic Expressions
August 5, 2019
 4
S01E20 The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don't
September 2, 2019
 7
S01E21 Can The Words You Read Change Your Behavior?
December 2, 2019
 5
S01E22 Why Do We Move Our Hands When We Talk?
December 23, 2019
 4
S01E23 The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can
February 17, 2020
 5
S01E24 Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
April 13, 2020
 5
S01E25 The Hidden Rules of Conversation
May 4, 2020
 6
S01E26 Ə: The Most Common Vowel in English
May 25, 2020
 5
S01E27 Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"?
August 24, 2020
YouTube
 4
S01E28 It’s pronounced GIF.
October 19, 2020
YouTube
 3
S01E29 How Many Languages Are There?
December 7, 2020
YouTube
 4
S01E30 Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French
March 22, 2021
YouTube
 5
S01E31 How languages steal words from each other
September 18, 2023
YouTube
 5
S01E32 there’dn’t’ve
October 16, 2023
YouTube
 4
S01E33 Does the language you speak change how you think?
season finale
November 6, 2023
YouTube
 5

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