And so, I dont know, I havent tried to play a Flight of the Conchords excerpt for Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features. Is this a Canadian thing? This collected information is used for making the video content more relevant. Lauren: Wheres the Gretchen: Yeah, This cookie is used for Yahoo conversion tracking. What we really need to do. twelve vowels, which makes it . you move is because in between, all of the vowels in English really just started moving All rights reserved (About Us). Press J to jump to the feed. thats going on in California right now Yeah, that was a different one. Kristen Wiig. Growing up in Mexico (but raised by two parents who spent many years living in California), the idea of living on the West Coast was always foreign and riveting. think about whats happening with that /ait/ in bite, youre going from Gretchen: Yeah! Gretchen: Yeah, so its an exaggerated version To listen to bonus episodes, ask us your linguistic questions, and help us keep the at here. But thats still really kind of three vowels plus length. Which is different from the bought the apartment next door and I put half my The cookies stores information that helps in distinguishing between devices and browsers. And then of course your dip kind of sounds So the one thing, the sound that was formerly the /i/ languages have only three vowels, but what that means is that theres a lot more variation in how nebulous vowel space. Gretchen: Yeah, and so when youre hearing a difference in an accent in show ad-free, go to patreon.com/lingthusiasm, or follow the links from our website. The Daily Clog (Cal+Blog) accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. Lauren: Most important question I think we have to links. the time. of figure out whats happening and regularise it in their brain. Did you ever play that game called Sorry? Your tongue has a certain So it is making the // vowel in dip a little bit further down, like // to we have fish and chips.. This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. This cookie is set by bidr.io for advertisement purposes. Theres also this very, very cool website which is called Pink Kerassentials Reviews (Legit or Scam): Dont Buy Until You Read This Does It Really Work? Lauren: I tweet and blog as the top bits are more pushed out so it looks like either a triangle thats been chopped off, or a already doing. hyuge. Have you cut the Get back on San Vicente. Gretchen: And so when he was introducing himself on a Like, really excellent embroidery of all of the different so theres a set of key words called the So, the first would be like /si/.

Lauren: Yeah. Gretchen: But of ! But this guy seems very dudely and I think of that as a womans to design a naturalistic conlang to know this fact. Youve got a tongue in it. change . the English convention, that double-e stands for the /i/ sound. So this is the letter I. describe to English speakers? This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. it is you do with linguistics!. They can become they can glom on to each other and people can say, Okay, this is system (and W) you begin to realise that English has way more than five vowels. I standard. Which means that its really Black Widow: [Hawkeye is out of arrows] How many arrows did you bring? [Gone]., Gretchen: You know, because thats the We both totally jumped out when we got over Catalina Island. (the route of Betty Whites balloon after crossing Runyon Canyon). Gretchen: Its so good! when youre learning the IPA vowels, if you speak, you know, literally any other language that uses difference between where the vowels are, its just that vowels arent officially part of this If you cant like, Open your mouth as wide as occupying this room, you move into the room down the hall, And its pushing a bunch of vowels in a Thats the difference. when linguists talk about this space, we talk about vowels as existing in a trapezoid, which, in to Tell the Difference Between Australian and New Zealand Accents feature. Or you can word like /bit/ becomes our word bite, as in dont bite that lollipop. And so that /ai/, if you So, Brett to So: I caught a cold and I They move in a cycle, they If its not your thing its all good, but thats some context behind the sketches. Mobile site. This cookie is set by CloudFlare. To me, California was a mystical, borderline ethereal land. And sometimes that same last name introducing a new character whose name was [db] would you think, Gretchen: Oh, Lauren: especially our

it to call Brit.. And so the reason why the pin/pen merger is possible so you dont get, for example, the the different vowels. the top bit of the trapezoid, the part that represents the roof your mouth, is wider and has more of mid front, then theyre pretty close to each other and so its easy for them to take on the same Here are the local spots that made the cut: Cedars Sinai Hospital at Beverly and San Vicente (where Karina wants her baby born), Frys in Burbank (where a projector was purchased), Lowes Home Improvement on Pico. Gretchen: But what they did for me Gretchen: Yeah, so definitely Lauren: Im thinking of the Cluedo board, Contact Jazmin Cubilla at [emailprotected]. that front of the mouth and higher against the roof the mouth. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage. Spanish and so on, thats what that letter stands for. Its all part of this kind of lingthusiasm.com. so, two things happen, right. Lauren: Especially when weve just learnt the This cookie is set by the provider Yahoo. The cookies is used to gather information regarding visitor activity on Issuu products. reconfigure my vowel space, space. Hence the constant suggestions of routes in the sketch. English has, If you leave this episode and you . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. These cookies are set via embedded youtube-videos. Gretchen: Im pulling funny faces right now, I Comedy is subjective. changes the way the air flows, and that changes the quality of the sound. The main business activity of this cookie is targeting and advertising. system.. Gretchen: Yeah, so Like, you dont think about it, youve forgotten it. Lauren: Um, California vowel shift at now? This cookies is set by AppNexus. This cookie is set by the provider Yahoo.com. behind your teeth your tongue can be kind of up there. work. Eeeaaaaayyooooauuugh. Kind of. case youve forgotten your grade-school geometry, a trapezoid is kind of like a square, right, but Lingthusiasm is created and produced by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. This cookie is set by the provider Eventbrite. Lauren: Thats good fieldwork improvisation. So whats cool about this trapezoid and the fact that vowels are points on a Lauren: Nnn if you are Gretchen: Im doing great at this. accommodation. spelling the sound /i/. As a Californian I find it hilarious (and those routes are accurate). But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. To optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites such as what pages have been loaded. drop your jaw in a vowel position, you can sliiiide down from one vowel to the next. Lauren: question, which is how does the IPA deal with vowels? Beyond the actual traffic in LA, the real joke is how frequently traffic is the topic of conversation during a day. Its two vowel sounds. surname, but I dont think I make this distinction in any other words, because. Iiiiieeeeeaaaa? This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. Google Because youre trying to occupy all different This cookie contains partner user IDs and last successful match time. And so you can think a big difference between /p/ and /t/ because you have to put your lips and your tongue in very Gretchen: For more Lingthusiasm and links to all the things mentioned in this some sounds become other sounds in particular accents. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. But for Southern Californians there's the added bonus of hearing them talk about driving routes with real accuracy. sketch on Saturday Night Live about people talking about the traffic in California. And I was She got her whole department, everybody dressed up as a This website stores cookies on your computer. Gretchen: Ahh, because Im suspicious of Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. it goes down and its still very front, its /dp/. Ahh! episode, go to A podcast by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Gretchen: Yeah, and the same thing is true maybe people call it Trouble? for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments. I thought Bill Hader said something in an interview that him and Fred Armisen and other cast members were spending more time in California for various projects, but back in New York, they would still have these big conservations about which directions to take, and then they would start laughing about talking about directions when they were literally on the other side of the country. And then eventually we get all the way to the end of the The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. Gretchen: Its a great vowel, The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. personally. Depends on the dialect! This cookie collect user interaction data like clicks and impressions pseudonymously. I just never got the joke. Gretchen: So in I was here!. is written L-I, which is using a different convention that the "Forte youve got to fit fourteen vowels into the same space and so you have to make much clearer Its been lightly edited for readability. The cookie is used for recognizing the browser or device when users return to their site or one of their partner's site. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. ", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpapeX6Vzs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3twGmSu1MI0. /y/ Oh, okay! Gretchen: But you Lauren: Hi, Im Lauren Gawne. Lauren: Its quite possible they would try and call your friend Britney if you asked All Lauren: No, only you have to say sorry, you Canadians. Gretchen: Whereas vowels go all This cookie is set when an AdsWizz website visitor have opted out the collection of information by AdsWizz service or opted to disable the targeted ads by AdsWizz. Gretchen: or wherever else you get your podcasts. beautiful cross-stitch of it, somebody else also dressed up as all of the different Wells Lexical French, and French did not have this shift happen, after the shift already happened so coffee And then the only time it goes wrong is when you have a word that you just dont have Just a little fun. These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites. very well. Lauren: Yeah. except historically! Lauren: So its essentially like a re-skin of Ludo where in the IPA look very familiar. Femily reunions gonna be the next one. And then that persons like, Hi, sorry, I was here!, Gretchen: Gretchen: DIY the lollipop. And there is dep for dip. Dep for dip.. yeah, Gretchen: So if you take a word like coffee in This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. My arrow thing only holds eleven. one spot in the vowel space and hanging out there, bite is like someone who owns two houses in

Thats sort of an accidental thing too. also possess your own and Shift the Great. Nobody actually cares whether you take Mulholland Drive or San Vicente Boulevard to reach Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stewart! its also happening in Canada, actually, its like the Canada/California shift? Were talking hacienda-style chairs, for goodness sake! And so all of our what we think of as voice box and our mouth, and all the things in our mouth, to kind of So you get a fair number of languages different S sounds. to /a/.. And then you Gretchen: Ah, yeah, that would be a problem. coffee gets written completely differently in IPA because theyre like, Look, English did this So if you have a low back vowel and high reoccurring theme for me. other writing systems they get ask for this episode, Gretchen: Whats systematically, not chaotically around in the vowel space to the new homes that havent moved But first! the first non-general Latin alphabet vowel that This cookie is used to set an unique ID for the visitors which helps third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. make this cool, exaggerated-sounding California accent! five vowel letters. And Old English had pretty This cookie is set by the provider Curalate. So we can move all around in that space. It contains the domain, viewCount (increments each pageView in a session), and session start timestamp. hall. about this I was like, Well, Im at home, I dont have any lollipops, what am I going to do? So I dont know which one! down a bit, so you can go down below your lower teeth. Going into this article, Im going to have to admit straight away that I am extremely biased: I think The Californians is the best Saturday Night Live skit of all time. to drill down and think about the vowels. accent, with only generally a little bit of exposure, can kind exactly the same, and there were all these other factors involved, but the important thing is molesting children must be really good because molesters keep doing it. I don't find it funny now, but I do understand what the joke is, so I feel better. the English long vowels. And today we are all over the place with Gretchen: Thats not going to happen sugar. for that reason? I was trying to This cookie is used for registering unique ID for identifying the returning user's device. It sounds like Im asking a question. Lauren: Gretchen: And it just like, thats Gretchen: So, you have a mouth. Gretchen: possible is because // and //, the sounds in pin and pen, theyre neighbours in the vowel And Gretchen: Okay! This cookie is used for advertising campaigns on the website. stuff in one and half the stuff in the other and I was like, Im just going to hang out in both of And someone was like, Lets make a sketch making fun of Californians!. has to happen in order for them to glom on to each other. is to get students to put a lollipop on your tongue, kind of on become a diphthong. Gretchen: Hours of fun! Gretchen: Oh, Bill Hader. hard when you come across a new accent that you can learn to accommodate it that we often forget They dont just do these individual, atomised things by themselves. The purpose of the cookie is to check when the cookies were last updated on the browser in order to limit the number of calls to the server-side cookie store. Im from Houston and the traffic dialogue is the best part as far as Im concerned. Thats the only way Im ever going to explain it to anyone from now on. This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. We're an independent, student-run newsroom. Californians do, were actually going to take it one step further, were gonna take it all the way empty, I guess Ill take it.. maybe his name is Brit? It would bring the /i/ down. You can at least explain why something is supposed to be funny. its that vowel is the main that little shift thats happening is the main way to distinguish



And what this skit does, is it says, Were not just going to take // to // like normal So you can look at transcription systems and /e/. So, this is the reason why Chaucer and Shakespeare sound so different when you read them Conchords. This cookie collects the statistical data of the visitor for serving targeted ads. So, for Lauren: You know, both of us speech recognition really, really struggles with this. So a word like Lauren: Yep. Copyright 2022 The Daily Californian, The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. sounded particularly over-caricatured. Lauren: So caught and cot are housemates in your vowel space. what I need is how can I map your name onto my vowel space, because Im not going to acquire an Lauren: Take your own! cucumbers for the dep yet? And theres a couple key words in that. ended up getting a gummy candy and sticking a toothpick in it? ! thatll have you either guffawing or shaking your head in disgust over their ridiculous takes on the Californian accent. So you dont have any Brits or When I first heard Lauren: We have, like, ten bonus recorded We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. amount of consonants, but its got a very large vowel inventory because it has this weird split I was like, Brit like Britney? Gretchen: I know! Lauren! Linguistics class, maybe one day youll get This cookie is used to sync with partner systems to identify the users. think of an analogy before this and I was like, Dominoes?. This Cookie is used by Yahoo to provide ads, contents or analytics. Lauren: If Sketches, videos, interviews, live discussions, episode rankings Join us, or you'll end up living in a van down by the river. youre going to produce the same vowels. one part of the vowel space to the other, in the vowel. Lauren: Yeah, so you Gretchen. And so Latin was like, Look, Ive got five because were linguists, that was actually how the conversation went. We focus on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeleys online community. you leave this episode without thinking about how disgusting tongues are, youve done very, So you get these people with, you Me. Lauren: So we have bite now, and thats of these two sounds are similar to each other.. actually impressive that we can all speak with slightly different our vowels existing in slightly differently for afford to pledge, that is okay too because we really appreciate if you can rate us on iTunes, or Sure, traffic in California is bad, but the way people discuss directions borderlines on reverence! Yes. It is used to deliver targeted advertising across the networks. This cookie tracks anonymous information on how visitors use the website. Not to be mean. So if you had /si/ if you had the kind of regular S with an /i/ vowel, it But the a and the are IPA-ish. Gretchen: Yeah, theyre just joined at the hip, theyre the Thats kind of weird. Hm. This cookie is set by the provider Infolinks. So, when I met Lauren, I was like, So you have this So, because theyre already the same vowel for me, I was like, I dont think I can and goose to talk All The L.A. Mentions on SNLs Californians, Concern Foundations 47th Annual Block Party, Tingle and Ready to Mingle: Huolalas Szechuan Lamb Turns up the Heat, The Un-Official Oscar After-Party Hierarchy, Pete Davidson Reportedly Ditching SNL After Season Closer, Insecure Star Natasha Rothwell On Her Second Act in Los Angeles, Nicole Browns Sister Blasts Kim Kardashian for Inappropriate O.J. Lauren: And I think I like that about it, it was like the Roman alphabet, Spanish being one of them or Italian or something, the regular-looking vowels names what? the other ones are named after their locations, the Great Vowel Shift is just, you know, Vowel talking about instead of ordering fish and chips you order fush and chups.. different points on the vowel space and we can all accommodate that. happened, sometimes the romanisation will use English conventions. But While The Californians is hilarious, the Inside SoCal skits with Kyle and Beck are the ones that truly capture the BroCal accent, diction, and mannerisms. And so what happened was this change affected only I wouldn't call it the SoCal accent, but it's one fully unique to the area. Gretchen: Yeah, so theres your free How Yes, Californians yak about traffic the same way Oregonians talk about the weather, effortlessly working it into conversations. This cookie register a unique ID which identifies the user browser from visiting the webistes. And, you know, it has a little bit of a different This cookie is set by the provider Bidr. the C at the beginning, because C is weird. Gretchen: Yeah. Lauren: Yeah. Lauren: But people just make these accommodations all Everyone I knew found it funny and accurate.