PRI's The World: The World in Words
Summary: The World in Words with Patrick Cox focuses on language. We decode diplospeak and lay bare nationalist rants. And as English extends its global reach, we track the blowback from the world's 6,000+ other languages, in the form of hybrids like Chinglish, Hinglish, Singlish and Binglish. Binglish? Visit the full archive at pri.org!
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Podcasts:
Washington's Metaphor Program, new Scrabble slang, and Lingodroids
Re-learning Spanish, super-injunctions, and UK hearts Obama
Ai Weiwei's translator, Belgium during linguistic wartime, and Rastamouse
The battle to own Bin Laden's story, the saddest national anthem, and...to translate, just add water!
The Pentagon's linguistic history, fictional job titles, and pink princesses
English-only in the US, translating tweets in Japan and satire in Egypt
From Cicero to Lynne Truss with Robert Lane Greene
Dictators with dialects, universal Inuit, and finger spelling
Explaining the radiation threat to Japan's kids, and Kate the Great.
The vocoder, the linguistic robot and the dead rabbit
Bilingual babies, consciousness, and poetry
French learning English, Irish learning Irish, and suddenly: free speech in Tunisia
The past and future of pharaohs, Cantonese and the Gang of Four
Eliminating an unwanted language, and Shakespeare in Shona
At the BBC, fewer languages and perhaps less global influence
