Geoffrey Nunberg

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg comments on efforts to preserve the French Language.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the problems of navigating the internet.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on nouns to verbs.

Language commentator Geoffrey Nunberg comments on interjections in modern slang.
Description (Program)

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg comments on the word millennium. He worries that during the next century, will anyone be able to spell it right. A look on the web showed the word misspelled 30-percent of the time. Nunberg offers his solution to the coming orthographic crisis.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg on the origins of the word "paparazzo."

Chess master Garry Kasparov may have lost to Deep Blue, but linguist Geoff Nunberg says there are some areas where humans will beat computers -- at least for now.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg wonders if present day warning signs will be comprehensible to future generations.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg comments on the history of slang, and refers to two books about it: Johnathan Lighter's Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) and "Flappers 2 Rappers" by Tom Dalzell (1997).

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg reflects on our use of the term "postmodern" to describe everything from art to architecture. But Nunberg wonders when exactly modernism began and ended.