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:
Aramaic revival in the Holy Land
America's woes from the outside in
Is language holding back New York's Bengali voters?
Wordplay, dance and a poetry cycle challenge China's authorities
What's in a street name? In Jerusalem, plenty
Britain's upper lip droops, but keeps calm and carries on
An Australian dictionary redefines misogyny
Translating birth, love and death with Nataly Kelly
Hobson-Jobson, a dictionary both enduring and entertaining
The Perils of Campaigning in Spanish
Cairo's honking language
The language of disability in Ukrainian, Persian and Uzbek
Haji Noor Deen's fusion of Chinese and Arabic calligraphy
Yiddish Rediscovery in Belarus and Poland
Turbanology: a Sikh neologism
