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:
Translators past, present and future, a new Iliad, and Greek humor
Accents, chatbots, and fear of a Chinese-speaking planet
From Boston to Kigali, Chinese goes global
Fry's Planet Word, Belizean Creole and Steve Jobs' global speech
A grammar of cities, a dying Inuit dialect, and Frank Zappa's lyrics
Watch your diplomatic language! Plus, Yang Ying's musical dialects
Toilet talk across the pond, and banning bilingual education
Separated by a Common Language with Lynneguist
In Britain, a new English test and a cuss box, and learning the Koran by heart
The swirling rhetoric around Norway's tragedy, and Blitz the Ambassador
Punjabi immersion, Nigerian pidgin radio, and Annoying "Americanisms"
Blagging, famine, a metaphor-free language and a ban in Belgium
The Chinese names of American politicians, and South Sudan's anthem
The legacy of the translated Bible
Assyrian, Donald Keene's Japanese and Canucks
