Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, and other bards of invented tongues. We’ll explore, with linguist Arika Okrent.

The wisdom of the world and ages, in a new collection of proverbs from Zanzibar, from ancient days, and from the corner store.

One man, twenty-one thousand pages. When author Ammon Shea set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary, it did more than enrich his vocabulary. He’ll tell us why.

Are you a multi-slacker? A matador? A frazz master? We’ll look at the weird new vocabulary of today’s business world.

Of the world’s seven thousand languages nearly half will disappear by the end of this century. Their extinction means the end of entire cultures, traditions, and histories.
K. Davis Harrison and Gregory Anderson are on a mission to save these dying languages. They’re linguists, but not the kind who spend their lives in libraries and classrooms.
They [...]