That Word Chat

Episode 26: Strong Language (TWC13, part 2)

On July 14, That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen welcomed the founders of the blog Strong Language, Stan Carey and James Harbeck.

 

Carey is a freelance copy editor and writer from the west of Ireland. A trained scientist and TEFL teacher, he writes about language, words, and books at Sentence First, Macmillan Dictionary Blog, and elsewhere. He tweets at @StanCarey. Harbeck is a freelance copy editor and writer in Toronto who maintains the blog, Sesquiotica, where he writes about language and conducts word tastings, rolling words around in his mouth and describing them like a fine wine. He has also written for This Week and others. He tweets at @sesquiotic.

 

Carey and Harbeck maintain Strong Language, "a sweary blog about swearing." We talked all about swearing.

Episode 25: Strong Language (TWC13, part 1)

On July 14, That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen welcomed the founders of the blog Strong Language, Stan Carey and James Harbeck.

 

Carey is a freelance copy editor and writer from the west of Ireland. A trained scientist and TEFL teacher, he writes about language, words, and books at Sentence First, Macmillan Dictionary Blog, and elsewhere. He tweets at @StanCarey. Harbeck is a freelance copy editor and writer in Toronto who maintains the blog, Sesquiotica, where he writes about language and conducts word tastings, rolling words around in his mouth and describing them like a fine wine. He has also written for This Week and others. He tweets at @sesquiotic.

 

Carey and Harbeck maintain Strong Language, "a sweary blog about swearing." We'll talk about the blog, and there may be swearing.

OK, there will be swearing.

Episode 18: Karen Yin (TWC9, part 2)

That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen welcomes Karen Yin for the June 9 show. The 2017 Robinson Prize winner, Yin is the founder of Conscious Style Guide—the first website dedicated to conscious language—and The Conscious Language Newsletter. Named by Poynter as one of the top tools for journalists in 2018, Conscious Style Guide is recommended by BuzzFeed, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Society of Professional Journalists, and many others, including NASA. Yin also founded the Editors of Color Database and the Database of Diverse Databases, and you might know her as the provocateur behind AP vs. Chicago, an irreverent blog comparing those two venerable guides. She is now pursuing her dream of creating books for children.

This is part 2 of 2.

Episode 17: Karen Yin (TWC9, part 1)

That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen welcomes Karen Yin for the June 9 show. The 2017 Robinson Prize winner, Yin is the founder of Conscious Style Guide—the first website dedicated to conscious language—and The Conscious Language Newsletter. Named by Poynter as one of the top tools for journalists in 2018, Conscious Style Guide is recommended by BuzzFeed, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Society of Professional Journalists, and many others, including NASA. Yin also founded the Editors of Color Database and the Database of Diverse Databases, and you might know her as the provocateur behind AP vs. Chicago, an irreverent blog comparing those two venerable guides. She is now pursuing her dream of creating books for children.

 

 

That Word Chat 5: Grammar Table

Ellen Jovin and Brandt Johnson, the couple behind Grammar Table, join That Word Chat with Editor Mark Allen for this fifth episode, recorded May 5, 2020. There is a bit of strong language during one audio clip in this one.