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 86: An American family, an Indonesian tribe, an oral language and its first book
The World in Words news: Google's humanoid translator, accent phobia, and misleading job titles
The World in Words 85: Middle East Street names, Bible translators and locavore language
The World in Words 84: Swearing in Irish, storytelling in Scots, and rapping in Khmer
The World in Words 83: Arabic grafitti in Moorish Spain and the fall and rise of Yiddish Part 2
The World in Words 82: The BBC broadcasts in Haitian Creole, and the fall and rise of Yiddish
The World in Words news: Packing flashcards, Pandas and Polyglotty Olympics
The World in Words 81: A Chinese Valentine's pod
The World in Words 80: Obama's new words, Avatar in the Amazon, and a Chinese satirical extravaganza
The World in Words news: New York's polyglot cops, Arabic online, and the planet's most difficult language
The World in Words 79: The wonder of weird words like whiffling, and the elusive meaning of peace
The World in Words 78: Hebrew's revival, Turkey's banned letters, Malaysia's Allah crisis, and Q
The World in Words 77: Praying in Spanish, new Hebrew names for planets, and a Danish hangover
The World in Words 76: Esperanto's past, present and future, and what not to say in Ireland's parliament
The World in Words 75: British English as it is, was, and could have been
