The Linguistics Lounge #1 - Let's Talk About Accents

The Strategic Linguist Podcast · Mar 2, 2026 · 53m

Thank you Jen Benford, Mother Hood, Claire Machado, Stephen Scheidell, and many others for tuning into my live video with Anna | how to boss AI and Cristina! Accent, Identity, and the Cost of Linguistic PerformanceWith Anna from Anna | how to boss AI and Cristina from Cristina This week I sat down with Anna and Cristina — two non-native English speakers working in professional environments — to talk about something the research names but rarely makes personal: what it actually costs to perform your language at work every day.We covered a few things.The invisible tax. The monitoring…