# 90: Enpoopification (with Grant Barrett and Tim Brookes)

An episode of [Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/436133392), 21 Jan 2024, 2 h 06 min.

Audio: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkthetalk/90_Enpoopification.mp3?dest-id=897956

We're talking words, and no one has a way with words like Grant Barrett. He's here to tell us what it's like at Dictionary.com, and what went down at the annual American Dialect Society Words of the Year 2023 vote. And perhaps he can help forestall Hedvig's planned mass human extinction. Also: World Endangered Writing Day is upon us! It's a fantastic initiative, and author Tim Brookes of Endangered Alphabets is here to lay out the case for preserving writing systems.

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