Episode 44 – Dinosaur Language
This week on the podcast…
00:00:00 The Paleopals are joined by Ryan North, a computational linguist and creator of Dinosaur Comics (as well as a Canadian). The Americans have beers and the Canadians have other stuff, some more interesting than beer, and some less so.
00:08:45 Ryan North talks to us about computer using linguists and helps us sort out articles involving computers (supposedly) cracking indecipherable dead languages and how and why to save languages that are going extinct.
01:11:23 Northern Ryan joins the usual suspects for Trailer Trash Talk. We attack Piranha 3D, with surprising results. We trade more stock than usual, find out if it’s long, short, or both.
01:24:23 We check in with Ryan at The Amazing Meeting in Vegas and plug our live recording at Cal Academy Nightlife on July 15th. Then, we settle in on what is really important, you (talking about or to us). Ben reads a classic review which sparks a Roman history duel between Ryan and Ben.
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OKAY SO, for the record: from the wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_the_Grouch
“Oscar tries to keep his Canadian identity secret, but admitted that he is Canadian due to his parents being from Canada. He was born in Minto, New Brunswick. His father being born in Saint David, New Brunswick, and his mother growing up in Nova Scotia.”