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The Golf Podcast | LiveEP 064: TGP Live | Players Championship Preview | With Matt Adams, Vince Cellini and PGA Tour Veteran Jay DelsingJoin Rafael Kalamat and Michael Bleackley as they host an action-packed episode featuring three celebrated guests. "Fairways Of Life" host and Golf Channel analyst, Matt Adams, PGA and Champions Tour veteran, host of "Beyond The Fairways" podcast, and ESPN personality, Jay Delsing and legendary sports broadcaster and Golf Channel personality, PGA Tour Champions "Learning Center" host, Vince Cellini.
Together, they take a deep dive into this week's Players Championship event, providing wonderful insights on the players, stories about Pete Dye and Deane Beman's discussions when designing the TPC Sawgrass golf course, and the absence...
2023-03-081h 13
Speculative Grammarian PodcastLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVILanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVI — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by returning guest Pete Bleackley. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss something else that tries to look like iconicity, and then look at some innovative and/or abominable on-going changes in English.
2016-12-1200 minSpeculative Grammarian PodcastLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLVLanguage Made Difficult, Vol. XLV — The SpecGram LingNerds are joined by guest Pete Bleackley. After some Lies, Damned Lies, and Linguistics, the LingNerds discuss something that tries to look like iconicity, and then share their favorite linguistical jokes.
2016-12-0500 minSpeculative Grammarian PodcastHazards of Fieldwork Among the HiithrobnsnHazards of Fieldwork Among the Hiithrobnsn; by William Moore-Crusoe; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, October 2015 — The Hiithrobnsn live in a remote, marshy and inhospitable region of Guyana. A traditional greeting amongst them is “Mind where you walk,” wise advice, as it is vitally important to make sure that you remain on what passes for dry land locally. Stray into the mire and you risk being bitten, stung, infected or electrocuted by the various unpleasant creatures that dwell therein. The Hiithrobnsn have 27 words for “swamp”, and all of them are pejorative. (Read by Pete Bleackley.)
2016-04-2500 minSpeculative Grammarian PodcastFeatures of Tea: A Potted HistoryFeatures of Tea: A Potted History; by Pete Bleackley; From Volume CLXXIII, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, June 2015 — According to legend, tea originated when an emperor of China was adding the feature [+boiled] to his drinking-water, having deduced the correlation with [−disease]. A chance gust of wind led to the water becoming [+leaves], and the Emperor noticed it had become [+flavour]. (Read by Pete Bleackley.)
2016-03-1900 minSpeculative Grammarian PodcastPhonologist’s ShantyPhonologist’s Shanty; Traditional; From Volume CLXXIV, Number 1, of Speculative Grammarian, September 2015 — What shall we do with the velar nasal? / What shall we do with the velar nasal? / What shall we do with the velar nasal? / Early in the morning. (Performed by Pete Bleackley.)
2015-09-0500 minSpeculative Grammarian PodcastThe Necessity of Sound Theoretical Frameworks in Linguistic EducationThe Necessity of Sound Theoretical Frameworks in Linguistic Education; by Noah McMosky; From Volume CLXVI, (166) Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2013 — Theoretical Linguistics has the loftiest of goals, namely the creation of a theoretical framework that can explain the features of all languages. Lamentably, however, the pursuit of this goal is often frustrated by the activities of field linguists, who seem to take perverse delight in presenting data that apparently contradicts whatever theory seems most promising at the time. Sometimes, the data can be reanalysed in a more reasonable fashion, but to this day I remember my bitter disappointment as a yo...
2015-02-2700 min