English 'Loan Words' in Your Language
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Listeners who speak a second language call in to share which words in English are commonly used in that language, and what it might say about that culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC and for just our last 10 minutes today let's have a little fun with words. |
| 0:08.0 | This time it's a call-in on English language words and phrases that don't exist in any other language that you |
| 0:16.2 | may speak. |
| 0:17.2 | Again, a call in on English language words and phrases that don't exist in any other language that you may |
| 0:24.3 | may speak. Who's got an example? |
| 0:25.8 | 212 433 WNYC, 212 433 9692. |
| 0:33.8 | Why are we doing this? |
| 0:35.0 | Because on this show, we've had the opportunity in the past |
| 0:38.0 | to invite all of you to teach us words from your other culture of origin that might not exist in English, so we thought today, |
| 0:47.0 | just for the front of it, we're going to flip that script and ask something that we haven't asked before. If you speak multiple |
| 0:54.4 | languages, if English is your first or second or third or fourth language, what one |
| 1:01.6 | example of a word or a phrase you use in English that you don't have a |
| 1:06.2 | translation for in your other tongue? |
| 1:09.0 | 212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433 WNYC. 212, 433, 9692, call or text. |
| 1:17.8 | This is a good one for texts because we don't have much time |
| 1:21.3 | and you can do this one short but also call us |
| 1:24.0 | 212 433 9692. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as a loan word and if |
| 1:32.0 | it's an English loan a lot of them seem to be examples of the United |
| 1:36.3 | States influence around the world right so the word okay is used in a lot of |
| 1:42.2 | other places now where they don't speak English. Stop signs are |
| 1:45.8 | called stop signs I read this morning in parts of the world that are not English |
| 1:51.8 | speaking and of course advancements in the US have changed |
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