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:
Am I in Budapest or Bucharest?
You've Been Droned, Don't Drone Me Bro, Yes We Drone
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A Crash Course in Portuguese With Angelique Kidjo and Fado Novato
A Bilingual Baseball Moment Sparks Twitter Rage
The Language of New Orleans in One Word: Gumbo
A Theatrical History of Rhetoric From Socrates to Bin Laden
The Language of Corruption
The Globalization of Yiddish
Twanging and Twickling With Worm Charmers
To Change Or Not to Change Script: Turkish vs Persian
Cold War Linguists: The NSA Spies of Teufelsberg
Gezi Park's Linguistic Legacy: Words, Chants and Song Lyrics
Is Higher Ed Around the World Going All-English?
Silicon Valley's Immigrant Janitors Learning English at Work
