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:
Beautiful code, ugly fonts, and the architecture of diplomacy
Political language before and after Tucson
Teach yourself Babylonian, and teach the Ashes to the Ashes
Tuareg Storytelling, the Most Literary Bible, and the R word
The World in Words 111: Studying Italian, rebelling in Spanish, word-searching in English
The World in Words 110: How events shaped English, the future of Tibetan, and Spanish alphabet discrimination
The World in Words 109: Supermarket French, Chanson French, and Arabic in repose
The World in Words 108: Voting in a foreign language, Islamic calligraphy, and Chicago in Japanese
The World in Words 107: The English-only movement in America
The World in Words 106: Indian English, Aussie English, and one guy's idea of proper English
The World in Words 105: Genders, geniuses, and Tamil onomatopoeia
The World in Words 104: Ajami, Liberian proverbs and learning to interrupt at the UN
The World in Words 103: Speaking in Tongues and Dreaming in Chinese
The World in Words 102: Learning in two languages, and Zulu
The World in Words 101: A grammar hotline, rapid textspeak, and magic in a second language
