The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses Middle Chinese in Age of Empires IV and writing systems from Egyptian hieroglyphics and cuneiform to abjads (Hebrew, Arabic, Phoenician) and alphabets (Mongolian).

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苗：同埋瑪雅嗰啲，我唔係好熟喎。即係嗰啲一嚿嚿嗰啲吖嘛，瑪雅嗰啲係咪？好似個樣嗰啲吖嘛。好似有隻寵物小精靈嗰啲吖嘛。

靳：咩啊？

苗：一隻隻嘢㗎嘛。

以：逐隻捉咗佢。

苗：即係嗰啲瑪雅嗰啲文字，一隻隻嘢噉樣㗎嘛，好似神獸噉㗎嘛。

靳：係一個個好肥嘅噉樣，好似綿花糖噉樣嘅東西。

以：好似毛公仔噉樣㗎，之後佢又會攬住啲嘢噉樣樣。

苗：係啊，係啊，好似啊。

靳：好似毛公仔。

以：又有個魚頭啊，好鬼可愛㗎。

靳：係啊，係啊。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses the Tokyo Olympics 2021 opening ceremony, Hong Kong Book Fair, and various language learning apps and platforms such as Duolingo and Anki.

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苗：講起學語言嘅工具呢，應該第一個大家諗到嘅都係Duolingo啦。噉呢個基本上係……

以：唔係工聯會咩？

苗：係啊。

以：死啦，我哋上次講工聯會係唔開名㗎喎。

苗：工X會。

以：X聯會。

苗：某個黨派嗰啲。

以：工會。

苗：係喇。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses Cantonese dialects, their unique features, and what dialectology is, including examples from French and German.

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mek1：但係江門裏面其實應該都有好多種唔同嘅話嘅……

苗：梳！

以：做乜嘢啊？忍緊㗎！

靳：做乜嘢……

以：你忍唔到就全部都忍唔到㗎喇，唉。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses the differences between a dialect, a language, and a topolect in European and Sinitic language families, with examples from Scandinavia (Swedish/Norwegian/Danish), BCMS (Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian) and Sinitic (Taiwanese/Hokkien; Cantonese/Hongkongese).

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以：又係反映到語言學同埋即係正常人……即係或者一般大眾嘅分別囉，個落差。因為我哋……

苗：你係咪話語言學家唔係正常人？

以：OK，講過，OK。唔講過喇，就入……cut入去，cut入去！

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discusses Hong Kong’s latest Mandarin education policy imposed by the Chinese Communist Party, Apple’s iOS 15 “Cantonese” pinyin keyboard at the WWDC, LGBT Pride in Cantonese, and gender neutral language around the world.

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苗：啊係啊，英文嘅話就會係……

以：即係佢叫Carrie Lam㗎嘛，係咪？就唔係Carrie Cheng，係啦。

苗：係囉，佢嗰啲咩咩咖哩牛啊，嗰啲啦。

以：咩牛啊，羊啊！

苗：咖哩羊呀。

靳：咖哩牛！

苗：咖哩羊……我講過先。好似嗰啲咩英文嗰啲咩咖哩牛啊嗰啲。

以：你都係講錯！

苗：咖哩羊，屌，又錯。講多次，講多次。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode starts with the diglossia in Hong Kong (Cantonese and Mandarin) and discusses and compares the situations with Swiss German, Arabic, Classical Chinese, etc.

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以：歡迎大家返到嚟《絮言．狂想》第十五集，我係以色列。

苗：我係三苗。

靳：我係靳尼啊。

以：係喇，今日呢，我哋好興奮，因為今日係我哋第一次有由patron嚟到選出嘅題目啊，好嘢！

靳：好嘢！

苗：徇眾要求啊。

以：就係徇眾要求嚟講呢一個「雙層語言」啦，即係diglossia啦，就唔係……

靳：係咪即係好似啲牛肉漢堡噉樣啊？雙層巨……

以：雙層芝士孖堡啊？好似我係嗌開呢個。

靳：雙層芝士漢堡。

苗：雙層牛肉diglossia。

靳：雙層……要有牛肉。

以：雙層牛肉diglossia，係嘞。

靳：噉即係喺印度冇㗎喎，噉樣如果係噉。

苗：噉咪雞肉囉。

以：印度有冇……印度有冇呢？我哋陣間講啦。

靳：我哋陣間可以講下。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This conlang episode starts with Persian Lessons and discusses some constructed languages, such as artlang (from Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), auxlang (Esperanto, Interslavic), among others.

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以：所以……我唔知啊，唔知所以乜嘢啊，我冇所以喇。

靳：所以就冇所以喇。

苗：然後就冇然後？

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以：大家好啊，歡迎返到嚟《絮言．狂想》第十四集，我係以色列。

苗：我係三苗。

靳：我係靳尼啊。

以：係啦，今次終於用返廣東話嚟自介喇。

靳：嘩，係啊。

以：係，最近大家點樣啊？有咩好做啊，呢排？

靳：吓？呢排香港戲院就開返啦，噉其實近排都想揾啲戲嚟睇噉樣嘅。唔知大家有冇啲咩好介紹呢。

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The Cantonese podcast for fans of linguistics, language lovers, and Cantonese learners. This episode discuss the Taiwanese language (Tâi-gí or Taiwanese Hokkien), how to learn it, why native speakers reject the name Minnan, and what the fall of Taiwanese tells us about the future of Hong Kong Cantonese.

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以：欸？咩聲？

苗：拉得。

淩：拉得。

靳：唔係啊，啱啱有……有……

以：哦，哦，拉你喇，拉你喇。

苗：哦，拉你喇。

靳：係啊，已經……已經上緊嚟。

以：佢哋已經上咗嚟，聽到喇，已經。

淩：死喇，死喇。

以：我哋一講個title，佢哋已經收到喇。

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