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 50: Obama's pirate talk, why you shoudn't criticize Thailand's king, and silly British pub names
The World in Words 49: A verbless North Korean song, the DMZ linguistic divide, and Obama learns a little Hungarian
The World in Words 48: Le Petit Nicolas, how to start a foreign language Wikipedia, and the many meanings of yoga
The World in Words 47: Americans learn Spanish in Mexico, Obama speaks Spanish on Univision, Sarkozy's trashy French, and foreign Wikipedias
The World in Words 46: Words of comfort in discomforting times, a ban on jargon, and Yiyun Li's exquisite English
The World in Words 45: Hillary's Russian lesson, the decline of Pakistan's national language and Canadian English spelling
The World in Words 44: Haruki Murakami's fans, a kanji-holic and kwassa kwassa
The World in Words 43: Slumdogging in Hindi, Hillary grapples with Indonesian and Arabic America
The World in Words 42: UNESCO's language push, Welsh in the workplace, and the inside story of Jamaica's unofficial anthem
The World in Words 41: Speed-dating 37 languages, a woman's voice during ovulation and a chant from Cameroon
The World in Words 40: Washington's new tone, Updike's French Africa, and Benicio del Toro's many Spanishes
The World in Words 39: Persian news, Persian jokes and Persian spies
The World in Words 38: Obama's inaugural rhetoric, the end of the "war on terror" and a French-Arabic mashup
The World in Words 37: George Bush's Greeneland doppelganger, Bushisms Bollywood-style, and Ghanaian anthems
The World in Words 36: Braille, the Hebrew word for realignment, France's new language test and a Franglais band
