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 news: Windows 7 in African languages, unfortunate name translations, and the new Klingon
The World in Words 74: Words your grandmother taught you in Chinese, Dutch and Yiddish
The World in Words 73: Spelling Obama in Chinese, oratory from Beijing to Washington, and chop suey love
The World in Words 72: Baby talk, Ukrainian talk, and translated punk talk
The World in Words news: Glaswegians, birds, urls and Chinese script
The World in Words 71: Twitter and free speech, a Chinese word inspires new art, and a new Lakota immersion school
The World in Words 70: Bilingual metaphors, the passion of place name changes, and interpreting for the LA Dodgers
The World in Words news: Gaddafi's translator, Swedish fury at UNESCO, and Nazi slogans in English
The World in Words 69: Free speech in the Netherlands, South Africa and Denmark
The World in Words 68: Russia's national lyricist, Canada's language laws, and the rehabilitation of a code-breaker
The World in Words 67: Israel's street sign vigilantes, learning Hindi, and your brain on language
The World in Words 66: Rosetta Stone: the method behind the hype, a spelling bee with a twist, and Hillary's Congo adventure
The World in Words 65: New rhetoric on Israeli settlements, an international libary of children's books, and faux French in France
The World in Words 64: Diplomatic insults, click languages, Harry Potter in France, and cucumber season
The World in Words July 2009 news: Banning Hungarian, swearing for pain relief, and dog barks translated
