Don't be an *, be a 🐈

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03/13/23 • 57 min

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The Vocal Fries

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Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.
Whale vocal fry:

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Megan and Carrie talk with Rachel E. Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura, and the language we use to describe pregnancy, vaginas, cervixes, etc.
Whale vocal fry:

Background on phonic lips

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The Vocal Fries - Don't be an *, be a 🐈

Transcript

Megan Figueroa: Hi and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistics discrimination.
Carrie Gillon: I'm Carrie Gillon.
Megan: I'm Megan Figueroa. Today we're going to talk about whales. I mean, well, first of all, whales. Did you know? We talked about this before, but oh, my god, dolphins or whales? I did not know that. I don't know what I thought. I thought dolphins and porpoises were a separate category.
Carrie: I did too. I know that I had, if I went through