339: How English Could Be Way Cooler - a podcast by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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What cool things about other languages could we bring to English? Our listeners share their ideas. News: Another multilingual cross-species translator that's short on details. And the FOXP2 gene (often dubbed the "language gene") shows no evolutionary evidence of being selected for. Bookmarks: The children's show 'Anaana's Tent' teaches Inuktitut — now in English! Also, a new app 'Kupu' uses image recognition to teach Maori vocabulary. Words of the Week: meerkitten, interrobang, precariat.
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