Will technology make Braille obsolete as a primary reading tool for blind people? Will talking apps and audiobooks win out over embossed dots? It's possible, but Braille has been written off before; each time, it has come back stronger. We trace...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com You may not have heard of Frisian, but it’s spoken by about 500,000 people. Once upon a time, an older form of the language was barely distinct from Old English. We take you to...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Digital consultant Ivanka Majic was such an early user of Twitter that she was able to snag the handle @Ivanka. Which was great, until the rise of another Ivanka caused confusion...
In our upcoming season, we have stories on notorious names, the future of Braille, a history of alphabetical order and much more. Look out the first episode with Patrick and Kavita on March 17.
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com We are how we speak, right? Well, it’s complicated— enough so to spend Subtitle’s next four episodes on this question. We’ll tell the stories of a diverse...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In unsettled times, we reach for metaphors. They help us make sense of the nonsensical—or at least that’s what we tell ourselves. In this episode, we hear from linguist Elena...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Joe Wong is a brilliant bilingual comedian. In the US, he does standup. In his native China he hosts a popular TV game show. Recently his comedy has become more political: he is...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Bilingual comedian Joanna Hausmann (pictured with her mother Ana Julia Jatar-Hausmann) is sitting out the lockdown at her Venezuelan parents’ New England home. She tells us of...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In this episode, we talk with American medical student Esther Kim (pictured). She’s trying to overcome her suspicion of people with a particular accent, one that she’s...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Hassnae Bouazza was born in Morocco. She didn’t speak a word of Dutch when she immigrated to the Netherlands, though today it’s effectively her mother tongue. The Dutch...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced tens of thousands of New Orleanians. Many never returned to the city. Others have since moved in, bringing with them different languages and...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In folklore and fiction there’s a rich tradition of trees that talk, from Greek mythology to The Wizard of Oz. But that’s make-believe, right? Well, maybe. Many...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Susanna Zaraysky, speaker of nine languages, is one of those people who seem able to pick up French or Portuguese almost overnight. In reality, it’s not so effortless—but is...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com ‘Real’ or ’synthetic’? ‘Authentic’ or ‘lab-grown’? ‘Bloodstained’ or ‘green’? The highly-regulated words that describe diamonds define their narrative —...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Are you repelled by certain words? Do you get that fingernails-on-chalkboard feeling when someone says ‘moist,’ ‘dollop’ or ‘fascia’? In this...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Want to say or write something anonymously? Or pretend you’re someone else? Good luck. Linguists are using evermore sophisticated means to figure out who you really are. In...