Interviews from VidCon 2016

We had a great time again at VidCon this year! And we talked with a bunch of other KZbinrs about their favourite language stories, or their favourite facts about language. We got a lot of great replies, and we're happy to share them with you here! ^_^
Here's our video on whether correcting kids' mistakes is helpful: • Is Correcting Your Kid...
Thanks to all the people we interviewed!
Cassie: / cassievee
Sarah Urist Green: / theartassignment
Joan Goodspeed: / @breaknremake
Ali Mattu: / thepsychshow
Sevy: / sevyssecretchannel
Malinda Kathleen Reese: / malindakathleenreese
Cory Arnold: / 12tonevideos
Kevin O’Sullivan: / @kevosmusic
Stephanie Brown: / offbeatworlds
Find us on all the social media worlds:
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Twitter: / thelingspace
Facebook: / thelingspace
And at our website, www.thelingspa... !
You can also find our store at the website, thelingspace.s...
We also have forums to discuss linguistics more generally.
Looking forward to next week!

[@robert_wigh]

These stories are hella hecka freaking amazing! Thank you very much for gathering these stories, and thanks especially to the interviwees!

[@DrawCuriosity]

Really fun and interesting video and many good stories captured there! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@thelingspace]

Thanks! Glad you liked it. ^^

[@12tone]

Oh, hey, I wasn't nearly as awkward as I remembered being. Neat. Also really cool to hear other people's stories! Awesome video. Maybe I'll have to bring my camera next year...

[@thelingspace]

Yeah, I think you were fine! No worries. We really enjoy doing these kinds of interviews, so if you're up for it next year, then why not. ^_^

[@soupy4099]

Soaking cold is adorable.

[@thelingspace]

It is, and those sorts of innovative language use by kids is always kinda amazing. Like a view on how the world could work, if the conventions of our language were different. I always like that. ^_^

[@marinepp6463]

Teaching in Northern California has exposed me to the slang hella, but even funnier, the polite (classroom) version--hecka. That totally cracks me up.

[@thelingspace]

Oh wow, yeah. I really like that. I'll have to remember that one. Thanks! ^_^

[@ihath]

That was so much fun to watch

[@thelingspace]

Glad you liked it! ^_^

[@GregSanders]

I also enjoy words that share similar roles across languages even if they're parallel evolution. A lot of that might be that there's just only so many short exclamations available for languages with similar phonology, but even so it's fun.

[@thelingspace]

I think maybe you're correct on that, but there's still a lot of variation between languages, and it's interesting to see how it works. And tracking that variation is important, too. I'm often reminded of the fact that I used to say "huh!" to express interest in Japanese, the way I do in English. But in Japanese, that read to Japanese speakers as "haa?!", more or less, which is what you say when you're like affronted or angry. So I was accidentally communicating that I was angry a lot, until a friend suggested that I might mean [he:]. And then we fixed that. ^_^

[@GregSanders]

Absolutely. And I think that sounds which end up with opposite meanings can be even more interesting, and important to avoid.

[@blastedfish]

Those interviews were hella cool

[@thelingspace]

Thanks! Glad you liked them. ^_^

[@CassieVee]

I hella love the word hella.

[@thelingspace]

Me too, although I feel like I can't really use it in my dialect the right way? But that goes with what Ali was saying in the video - that kind of word, whatever you grew up with, is what feels natural to use. And since it's not mine, it doesn't. ^_^

[@KevOSMusic]

Damn, forgot to say that the dot is called a "séamhú" (pronounced shay-vu)

[@thelingspace]

Yeah, I think what happened was that you mentioned that when you were explaining it to us pre-filming, and then when we filmed it, you didn't repeat the term again. But it was still quite interesting! ^_^

[@KevOSMusic]

The Ling Space That must of been it. Typical of me.

[@thelingspace]

No big deal! Now if people are curious, they can check down here, and it'll be fine. ^_^

[@clarascats1365]

5:26 wait did they misspell Malinda’s twitter account?

[@soywaz6645]

To the first interviewee, you need to use "ser"... Estoy emocionada.