The Word Nerds

Dave Shepherd and Howard Chang try to recall why they settled on the topic of Memory and Language. (2:11)
Storytelling (4:19)
Music bumper from “Remember” by Bob Kirkpatrick (10:40)
Attribution of words (11:25)
Song: “Future Memory,” by Heth and Jed (17:21)
Rude word of the week: “special” (21:11)
Music bumper from “She Hates Love Songs by Katie Davis (25:05)
Memory loss (25:33)
Do […]

Well, folks, as you can see, the blog has moved.
Yes, the navigation sidebar is incredibly ugly. My main concern this week has been to make sure the podcast feed and blog page were all functioning. They seem to be.
I will try to clean up the sidebar and links in the next several days, as soon […]

Dave Shepherd announces changes to The Word Nerds’ blog and feed, which will take place this weekend. The web address for The Word Nerds will remain thewordnerds.org, and the feed address will stay thewordnerds.org/rss.
[EDIT: The very best way to subscribe is to use thewordnerds.org/feed. If you are already subscribed using /rss, it will work, but […]

Dave Shepherd welcomes back the North Carolina Nerd, Howard Shepherd, who is home from his travels to Denmark. Dave and Howard respond to several voicemails and emails about ePrime and puns. (1:55)
Howard shares his memories of his trip with his students to Hobro Gymnasium in Denmark. (8:53)
Revisiting our show on Insidious Idioms, we explain our […]

Dave Shepherd and Howard Chang talk about environments in which we communicate without using any words: elevators, restrooms, automobiles, interviews (1:59)
Music bumper from “Jona Lee” by Roomful of Blues (12:32)
Non-verbal communication in romance, sports, and the classroom (12:51)
Music and dance (19:19)
Song: “There Ain’t No Words,” by Harrison Kennedy (22:08)
Rude word of the week: “dumb” (25:43)
Music […]

We just learned from Apple Computer that The Word Nerds will be featured as a “splash” on the front page of the iTunes Music Store for about a week.
We are very happy to have this extra promotional push by Apple, and we expect this will mean a lot of new listeners and members of the […]

The Word Nerds will be making some changes to our blog setup sometime in the next week. (This means sometime between May 9 and May 16.)
While we will continue to have our podcast audio files hosted by our favorite podcast hosting company, Liberated Syndication, we will be moving the blog and feed portion of the […]

Dave Shepherd welcomes his wife Barbara once again as a guest Word Nerd. Dave and Barbara, who met in drama school years ago, discuss their shared background as actors. (1:54)
The specialized vocabulary of the theatre (5:51)
Music bumper from “Overreacting” by Brad Sucks (15:05)
Acting and performance in everyday life: the roles we play (15:29)
Song: “All the […]