# 123: Conscious Language (with Karen Yin)

An episode of [Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/436133392), 3 Aug 2025, 1 h 54 min.

Audio: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkthetalk/123_Conscious_Language.mp3?dest-id=897956

We've all seen style guides that tell us what to say and what not to say. Has a style guide ever asked you what you wanted to say? Or challenged you to examine your thinking? This one does. It's the Conscious Style Guide by Karen Yin, and she joins us for this episode. Timestamps • Cold open: 0:00 • Intros: 0:35 • News: 5:52 • Related or Not: 31:13 • Interview with Karen Yin: 48:43 • Words of the Week: 1:30:10 • Comments: 1:44:07 • The Reads: 1:47:45 • Outtake: 1:54:06

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