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Aug 05

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 158. Creature Quiz! There's lots of fun etymology of creatures and a lot of fun etymology derived from creatures, and now it is gathered into this fun playalong quiz about animal etymologies!
Jul 20

The Allusionist

read The Allusionist is currently on tour in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Come to see the new live show Your Name Here, all about eponyms! It’s 90 minutes of wordy musical joy. Two dates remain in Australia - Adelaide on 21 July and Sydney 27 July - then we’re in Aotearoa New Zealand in August. Get tickets at theallusionist.org/events.Also! Everyone who comes to see the new live show Your Name Here gets a 'Problematic Eponym of the Future' pencil to draft their own eponym with:
Jul 19

The Allusionist

read Tranquillusionist: Australia's Big Things This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, say a load of deliberately boring words to distract your interior monologue from whatever dystopian stew it is in. Today: a list of the Big Things of Australia.
Jun 25

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 157. Queerbaiting The term 'queerbaiting' has evolved from meaning entrapment to marketing ploy to drawing "queer audiences into a piece of media that has no intention of actually meaningfully exploring queerness" says Leigh Pfeffer , host and producer of the podcast History Is Gay. Leigh tracks where the word's various incarnations came from, and why it should not be confused with 'queer coding'
Jun 11

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 156 Rainbow Washing From whitewash (the paint) we got whitewashing (the covering up of misdeeds) and from there greenwashing, redwashing, bluewashing, purplewashing, pinkwashing - and now rainbow washing, where companies will put Pride flags all over products and posts during the month of June, but behind the scenes will not necessarily be useful - and sometimes they'll be anti-useful. Mitra Kaboli, host of the new podcast Welcome to Provincetown, helps sort the real allyship from the rainbow-washing; and wr
May 30

The Allusionist

read Pride playlist Hello! Here’s a playlist of episodes of the show that are good to listen to for Pride month, but also at any time, because they are some of the most interesting and complex language matters that I’ve covered in the show:Many Ways At Once. The Scots language didn’t have much of an LGBTQ+ lexicon. So writer and performer Dr Harry Josephine Giles decided to create one. Polari was a secret language that was used mostly by gay men in London. And now lives on in the non-secret lexicon - you might no
May 28

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 155. The Tiffany Problem The name Tiffany has been around for some 800 years. But you can't name a character in a historical novel 'Tiffany', because people don't believe the name is old. Science fiction and fantasy author Jo Walton coined the term "The Tiffany Problem" to express the disparity between historical facts and the common perception of the past.
May 14

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 154. Objectivity Couple of easy straightforward questions for us to chew on: 1. What is ‘objectivity’ supposed to mean? And 2. does it exist? Lewis Raven Wallace, a journalist and audiomaker fired from his public radio job over his blog post entitled ‘Objectivity is dead and I'm okay with it’, considers the principals and practice of objectivity, and what might be fairer ones.
Apr 16

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 153. In Character Chinese is one of the oldest still-spoken languages in the world. But when technologies arrived like telegraphy and computing, designed with the Roman alphabet in mind, if Chinese wanted to be able to participate then it had to choose between adapting, or paying a heavy price. And sometimes both were inevitable. Jing Tsu, author of Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern, recounts how Chinese contended with obstacles like alphabetisation, Romanisation and stan
Apr 03

The Allusionist

read Allusionist 152. Asperger Hans Asperger would have been merely "a footnote in the history of autism", so why did he get to be the eponym in Asperger's syndrome? Because along with the usual problems medical eponyms pose, and his work not really earning him the honour, he collaborated with Nazis and sent children to a hospital where they would be experimented on and even killed. Activist, writer and academic Morénike Giwa Onaiwu discusses the stigma around terms like Asperger’s syndrome and autism, and historian Edi

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