Podcast:SciShow Tangents Published On: Tue Sep 22 2020 Description: What would a podcast be without language? Perhaps a series of soothing tones? Maybe frog sounds? Wait… that sounds nice… Need more sweet language knowledge? Crash Course Linguistics: https://youtu.be/eDop3FDoUzkWant more Deboki? Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtu.be/17tug6T-4jcCrash Course Organic Chemistry: https://youtu.be/bSMx0NS0XfYAnd follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_bokiAnd every other Tangents episode! She does a ton of behind the scenes work and we’d, frankly, be screwed without her! Thank you, Deboki!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Mustached bat sounds and syntaxhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7962992/ Heaps Lawhttps://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/27/heaps-law/ Jackass penguin honkshttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0589https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.htmlhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jackass-penguin-calls-follow-similar-rules-human-speech-180974139/https://youtu.be/oTOcJj_NNUg Speed dating communicationhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/04/30/151550273/to-predict-dating-success-the-secrets-in-the-pronouns Prairie dog chatterhttps://www.prairiedoghoogland.com/vocalizationshttps://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/79/3/887/859259[Fact Off]Facebook machine learning of language https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uops-fuc030620.phpHypothetical spaceship languagehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706145433.htmhttps://zenodo.org/record/3747353#.X1j66nlKiJc[Ask the Science Couch]Human language efficiency https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594http://www.ithkuil.net/00_intro.htmlComputer languages https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/[Butt One More Thing]Pumpernickelhttps://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-devilish-origins-of-pumpernickel/