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From Borderlands to the Bard: Dialect, Colonial English, and Stage Directions
Episode 235
Published 19 hours ago
Description
In this episode we trace how English evolved across a dialect continuum from Yorkshire to Scotland, how colonial forces shaped Hong Kong English, and how Shakespeare’s terse stage directions reveal a functional language that survived printing and AI. We examine the social, political, and technological forces that have kept English alive and adaptable.
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