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:
The World in Words 100: A Persian insult, the planet's northernmost tongue, and an Urdu sense of direction
The World in Words 99: Self-censorship over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The World in Words 98: Deciphering, refudiating, and Kevin
The World in Words 97: Colombian Spanish, U.S. Spanish, and Dora the Explorer Spanish
The World in Words 96: Russian spy accents, Manute Bol and sign language
The World in Words 95: Globish, health care, and a Facebook misunderstanding
The World in Words 94: Talking Turkish, saluting Stalin, and forgoing French
The World in Words 93: Belgian adoption, Montenegrin invention, and the future of spelling
The World in Words 92: The language of the beautiful game
The World in Words 91: In every word, a microhistory...English spelling with David Wolman
The World in Words 90: Bilingual tots in the Middle East, reading in Arabic, and the language of smell
The World in Words news: Icelandic's new words, teachers with accents, and baaaad translations
The World in Words 89: Translators working overtime, renaming Asian carp, and counting in Chinese
The World in Words 88: A language speed-dater gets serious, and from Ukraine, a cross-dressing, cross-linguistic singer
The World in Words 87: Census-taking, volcano-pronouncing, and why Thais win at Scrabble
