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Why Linguists Love What's Happening with K-Pop

Season 6 Episode 1 | 7m 58s

As K-Pop slowly takes over the whole world, linguists have noticed it's changing the way people speak in multiple countries.

Aired: 02/02/26
Extras
There are a lot of hidden & surprising messages behind brand names.
How did we get from written words scrunched together without any spaces or symbols to punctuation?
What are folk etymologies?
Is TikTok ruining language?
We're gonna have to ask you to go ahead and watch this video. "
It's one of the most contentious debates in linguistics!
The ways we use negation in language can be pretty complex, even AI can’t seem to make sense of it.
Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names.
Children are sponges for language acquisition. Which leads us to ask the question: how much does TV
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There are a lot of hidden & surprising messages behind brand names.
How did we get from written words scrunched together without any spaces or symbols to punctuation?
What are folk etymologies?
Is TikTok ruining language?
We're gonna have to ask you to go ahead and watch this video. "
It's one of the most contentious debates in linguistics!
The ways we use negation in language can be pretty complex, even AI can’t seem to make sense of it.
Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names.
Children are sponges for language acquisition. Which leads us to ask the question: how much does TV