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:
Hong Kong's war of words, translating jargon, and Adieu Mademoiselle
Chinese names for babies, American names for Asians, and Oscar's foreign language rules
Words of love in songs, and acts of love in the Peace Corps
Segregating women in Hebrew, Iranian views in Spanish, and a device to read your mind
A translator disappears, myths about Chinese, and a new Facebook word
Fear of foreign languages, and a Garifuna musical project
Michael Erard's Hyperpolyglots Part 2
Michael Erard's Hyperpolyglots Part 1
Names and jobs, the many Spanishes of the NBA, and the Hitchens brothers
How languages convey the future, a lost metaphor, and Zahara
Tamil, a Tanglish song, Roma in Romanian, and retweeting etiquette
The Bible and the Brain, Hebrew slogans, and Burmese song
Banned words, words of the year, and snowy words
Australia through its languages and rhetoric
San Francisco's Chinese press, a new alphabet in Zambia, and OMG! Meiyu
