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 35: A loaded word, an overused word and the words that defined 2008
The World in Words 34: Learning Japanese for the manga and anime
The World in Words 33: Does being bilingual give you a split personality? And skirt-and-blouse politics in Ghana
The World in Words 32: The Bible in Jamaican patois and Rotten English
The World in Words 31: Shakespeare's appeal, Milton's linguistic inventions and a Japanese naming ceremony
The World in Words 30: One Bolivian language goes digital, another works in road rage situations, and Zulu hip hop
The World in Words 29: Misleading war metaphors, Rwanda rejects French, and the crimes of Franglais
The World in Words 28: Pinata politics, the Chinese-American generation gap and the bilingualism industry
The World in Words 27: A-Z of the U.S. Presidential election, part dos
The World in Words 26: A-Z of the U.S. Presidential election, part one
The World in Words 25: Negotiating in Arabic, Arab-American writers and the Arabization of The Simpsons
The World in Words 24: The Joy of Spanglish, and a Swedish-American spat on insularity
The World in Words 23: Endanger this! Losing and saving languages, plus Tingo
The World in Words 22: Teaching your kid to read in Urdu and teaching yourself to sing in Spanish
The World in Words 21: Translating the untranslatable, and Mel Brooks and the Odessa connection
