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LANGUAGE: THE DRESS OF IDEAS
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Program 08-03-09-B |
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Things go better with "biting the wax tadpole"? That doesn't sound right, does it? Yet that's the literal translation of Coca-Cola that Chinese shopkeepers came up with...a set of characters pronounced "ke-kou ke-la." In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll explore the exotic world of foreign languages. We'll hear the confessions of a language fanatic. Also, six-word memoirs. "One life. Six words. What's yours?"
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CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 08-03-09-B.
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Books:
| Elizabeth Little, Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic (Melville House Publishing) |  |
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Rachel Fershleiser & Larry Smith, eds, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure From SMITH Magazine (Harper Perennial) |
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Derek Bickerton, Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (Hill and Wang) |
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Distribution dates: week of 03/09/2008 - hour 2 |
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