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Episode 217
How the novel Anna Karenina sparked a quest to learn Tolstoy's native tongue.
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4 years, 9 months ago
Languages of Northern Africa
Episode 216
From vowelless words to complex poetry, Berber to Somali.
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4 years, 9 months ago
Languages of Northern Africa
Episode 216
Berber, Somali and other fascinating languages of the region.
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4 years, 9 months ago
You're Gonna Hafta
Episode 215
Deconstructing a single line of dialogue from Netflix's "The Crown."
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4 years, 10 months ago
You’re Gonna Hafta
Episode 215
Linguistic inspiration from a television series about the Royal Family.
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4 years, 10 months ago
The Languages of Southeast Asia
Episode 214
Why are so many of the languages of Southeast Asia "like Chinese"?
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4 years, 10 months ago
The Languages of Southeast Asia
Episode 214
Are Vietnamese, Thai and others of that region a lot like Mandarin?
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4 years, 10 months ago
Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.
Episode 213
English is full of redundancies—so why are we bothered by only a select few?
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4 years, 10 months ago
Irregardless Make You Cringe?
Episode 213
Some other words that perhaps should bother you but probably don't.
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4 years, 10 months ago
Nine Nasty Words
Episode 212
John McWhorter teases his new book about off-color English expressions, starting with c!#k.
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4 years, 11 months ago