Happy When Curious
My name is Brady Ryan and I am a sea salt farmer on San Juan Island in Washington State. Ever since I was a child I have felt like my main skill was not that I was smarter or stronger or harder working or braver than anyone else, I was just a little more curious than the average cat. Since becoming a parent and trying to be a good husband and small business owner have taken so much of my energy and attention, I feel like this one superpower I have has fallen by the wayside. This podcast is my attempt to rediscover curiosity through conversation and contemplation. I will be alternating conversations with guests one episode with a short musing of my own the next. The musing episodes will allow me to try to explore ideas that I've heard or that I've come up with in an open ended way. My theory is that exploration is worth much more than answers and hopefully the interviews and the musings can live up to that principle.
Happy When Curious
Bojan Belic: Linguistics, War and Taking Care with Words
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Brady Ryan
Bojan Belic is a Teaching Professor in the subjects of Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language, Russian language, and Slavic linguistics at the University of Washington as well as the Departmental Languages Coordinator (first-year Russian, Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin Serbian) University of Washington and a published scholar in linguistics.
Join me as we discuss how the war in the former Jugoslavia influenced the language (languages?) there, how care with words acts as care for the world, and so much more about linguistics.
