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Blow a Gasket - 10 March 2014

A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over

A Way with Words

Language Learning, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Pope has several Twitter feeds — and one of them’s entirely in Latin! But how do you adapt an ancient language to the modern world of selfies and hashtags? Plus, pit bull lovers are giving their dogs a linguistic makeover; they’re calling their pooches “pibbles.” And after you’ve eaten most of a slice of pizza, what do you call the crusty part that’s left?” Also, pizza bones, grand-nieces vs. great-nieces, pin vs. pen, V2V, sisu, blow a gasket, and write it on the ice. Hear hundreds of free episodes and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org. Be a part of the show: call or text 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; elsewhere in the world, call or text +1 619 800 4443. Send voice notes or messages via WhatsApp 16198004443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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you're listening to a way with words the show about language and how we use it.

0:33.4

I'm Grant Barrett.

0:34.4

And I'm Martha Barnett.

0:36.0

You may know that you can now follow Pope Francis on Twitter.

0:39.7

In fact, he tweets in several languages, including English, Spanish, and Arabic, but he's also tweeting, believe

0:46.0

it or not, in Latin.

0:47.0

Are there a lot of people following him in Latin?

0:49.4

Yes, well, there are at least 213,000 people who read the Pope's Latin Twitter feed.

0:55.0

Nice!

0:56.0

Isn't that great?

0:57.0

It's interesting to me because Latin is such an efficient language, you know, it's an inflected

1:02.0

language which means that there's a whole lot of meaning packed into one word, which is probably

1:05.7

really handy if you only have 140 characters.

1:08.9

But the other thing that I've been thinking about lately is the fact that there's the challenge of bringing an ancient

1:14.4

language into the 21st century. I mean how in the heck in Latin do you say email or

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