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 20: Scottish Gaelic, Scots and the Arabic for hockey mom
The World in Words 19: English-only golf, Orwell's blog and writing in a foreign language
The World in Words 18: French in the past, present and future, immigrant slang and Rachid Taha
The World in Words 17: global swearology, Georgian polyphony and a nonsense song
The World in Words 16: naming your child, Senegalese scrabble and "um"
The World in Words 15: China's mad about English and everyone's mad about Chinglish
The World in Words 14: Chinese script, dialects and patriotic names
The World in Words 13: chants, applause and faux Esperanto
The World in Words 12: official English, unofficial Spanish, campaign songs and the French word for podcast
The World in Words 11: living dictionaries and a singing ambassador
The World in Words 10: free speech special from Singapore, China and the U.S.
The World in Words 9: English and Textperanto go global
The World in Words 8: words about Iraq, terror and basketball
The World in Words 7: jokes from near and far, and how one Finnish word sparked a global movement
The World in Words 6: cluster bombs, bomblets and Arizona's language wars
