Dialects and Evolution
Robin Lustig asks how the 21st Century is transforming English - the world鈥檚 most widely used language.
Robin Lustig explores language change and diversity, as he asks whether English is fragmenting into multiple dialects or becoming increasingly uniform. In Kampala Robin polishes up his Uglish and he finds out how Hinglish, Tamglish and Spanglish are evolving in India and the US.
And everywhere he goes, Robin seeks out new words and phrases as he tracks linguistic change from social media and the streets through a California campus to the corridors of the Oxford English Dictionary. Sorting his memes from his muggles, spotting milkshake ducks and phubbing, Robin explores the future of English in the virtual world and the real one.
(Photo: A Spanglish sign which reads Vote Aqui Hoy. Credit: Getty Images)
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- Wed 30 May 2018 02:32GMT91热爆 World Service UK DAB/Freeview, Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa only
- Wed 30 May 2018 03:32GMT91热爆 World Service South Asia & East Asia only
- Wed 30 May 2018 04:32GMT91热爆 World Service Australasia
- Wed 30 May 2018 12:32GMT91热爆 World Service except News Internet
- Wed 30 May 2018 21:06GMT91热爆 World Service except News Internet
- Sun 3 Jun 2018 09:32GMT91热爆 World Service except News Internet
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