Blow a Gasket - 10 March 2014
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A Way with Words
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🗓️ 10 March 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:30.6 | 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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