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🕑 Added 2018-11-14 23:40:30 +0000 UTC

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Lingthusiasm

Thanks for listening and for your question! We did mention a few language games in this previous bonus episode about language play -- today's your lucky day! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-6-language-13734871">https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-6-language-13734871</a>

It's nearly holiday time, and I'm always in search of fun linguistics-based games to gift to/play with my unsuspecting friends. I recently discovered Dialect, which is a game about language change and death, and I'm already familiar with You've Been Sentenced, a hilarious game of (morpho)syntax/inflection. There's also "What do you meme?" which is like Apples-to-Apples only with memes. A lot of games seem to have language play as their basis, but I'm wondering if there are any others that are more explicitly about linguistics. I'd love to know what others exist in English and other languages. Thanks for a wonderful podcast--I just can't get enough!

James Conway

Stela, FYI: "shooketh" is discussed in Bonus #14 ("The Poetry of Memes - whomst shooketh the bred in the icebox"), though not quite in the context in which you have framed your question: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-14-poetry-17817811">https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-14-poetry-17817811</a>

Hi! Thank you for the opportunity :)) Recently I have been thinking a lot about the slang word form of "shake" in the phrase "to be shook" (or even "shooketh"). So obviously passive voice is being used here, but the verb is in its simple past form. I came up with several theories on why it is like this (e.g. roots in less educated social groups; irish dialect; phonological similarity with "shocked"), but I would love to hear your opinion on this. Thank you girls! <3