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• The World in Words 30: One Bolivian language goes digital, another works in road rage situations, and Zulu hip hop
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• The World in Words 29: Misleading war metaphors, Rwanda rejects French, and the crimes of Franglais
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• The World in Words 28: Pinata politics, the Chinese-American generation gap and the bilingualism industry
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• The World in Words 27: A-Z of the U.S. Presidential election, part dos
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• The World in Words 26: A-Z of the U.S. Presidential election, part one
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• The World in Words 25: Negotiating in Arabic, Arab-American writers and the Arabization of The Simpsons
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• The World in Words 24: The Joy of Spanglish, and a Swedish-American spat on insularity
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• The World in Words 23: Endanger this! Losing and saving languages, plus Tingo
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• The World in Words 22: Teaching your kid to read in Urdu and teaching yourself to sing in Spanish
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• The World in Words 21: Translating the untranslatable, and Mel Brooks and the Odessa connection
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• The World in Words 20: Scottish Gaelic, Scots and the Arabic for hockey mom
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• The World in Words 19: English-only golf, Orwell's blog and writing in a foreign language
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• The World in Words 18: French in the past, present and future, immigrant slang and Rachid Taha
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• The World in Words 17: global swearology, Georgian polyphony and a nonsense song
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• The World in Words 16: naming your child, Senegalese scrabble and "um"
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• The World in Words 15: China's mad about English and everyone's mad about Chinglish
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• The World in Words 14: Chinese script, dialects and patriotic names
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• The World in Words 13: chants, applause and faux Esperanto
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• The World in Words 12: official English, unofficial Spanish, campaign songs and the French word for podcast
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• The World in Words 11: living dictionaries and a singing ambassador
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• The World in Words 10: free speech special from Singapore, China and the U.S.
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• The World in Words 9: English and Textperanto go global
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• The World in Words 8: words about Iraq, terror and basketball
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• The World in Words 7: jokes from near and far, and how one Finnish word sparked a global movement
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• The World in Words 6: cluster bombs, bomblets and Arizona's language wars
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• The World in Words 5: Americans' language-learning adventures abroad and the linguistic sensitives of a Eurotrashy song contest
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• The World in Words 4: a teenager, two linguists and the US Congress revive dying languages
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• The World in Words 3: creating linguistic history on a desert island, and Israel's Seinfeld connection
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• The World in Words 2: Russian names, Putinisms and a diplomatic mistranslation
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• The World in Words 1: two national anthems and IKEA-speak
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