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### Behind The Language featuring Dr Edith Podovnik

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Most people think a linguist speaks many languages.

I've spent years correcting that.

Edith has too. She's a dialectologist with a PhD who studies how cat communities online build their own dialects.

We both study how language works. Power. Identity. Community. Change.

Linguistics is the science of language itself. Knowing five languages is a party trick. Knowing why language does what it does to people is a different discipline entirely.