PRI's The World: The World in Words show

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:

 A New, Protestant Beginning for the Irish Language | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 7:56

A New, Protestant Beginning for the Irish Language

 Will New Words Change How We Think About Illegal Immigration? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 8:01

Will New Words Change How We Think About Illegal Immigration?

 A New Beginning for Kurdish in Turkey? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 12:27

A New Beginning for Kurdish in Turkey?

 Sugar Sammy: Quebec's Multilingual Court Jester | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 17:54

Sugar Sammy: Quebec's Multilingual Court Jester

 What's the Matter With the Word "Amnesty"? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 8:41

What's the Matter With the Word "Amnesty"?

 Hamas Puts Hebrew on the Curriculum | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 4:40

Hamas Puts Hebrew on the Curriculum

 Is French Still Vulnerable in Quebec? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 20:41

Is French Still Vulnerable in Quebec?

 What Beatboxing Tells Us About Language Acquisition | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 7:22

What Beatboxing Tells Us About Language Acquisition

 Foreign Language Movies Beyond the Oscars | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 13:06

Foreign Language Movies Beyond the Oscars

 Obama's Simple Rhetoric, and Rubio's Spanish Reply | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 16:33

Obama's Simple Rhetoric, and Rubio's Spanish Reply

 Breaking News from the Vatican in Latin | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 05:24

Breaking News from the Vatican in Latin

 Lost in a Sea of People and Languages | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 08:26

Lost in a Sea of People and Languages

 White Guys Talking Jamaican, and Icelandic Names | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 12:25

White Guys Talking Jamaican, and Icelandic Names

 Finnegans Wake in Chinese | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 07:06

Finnegans Wake in Chinese

 Quebec's Separatists On Charm Offensive with "Notre Home" | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: 04:38

Quebec's Separatists On Charm Offensive with "Notre Home"

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