Language supposedly has all these rules.

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

In Radio Lingo, a new podcast from Duo Lingo in Crooked Media, we explore how language shapes

our world and how our world shapes language.

I'm Amadella Yuckbure.

I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.

I am an awe-void language.

It's complexity and it's simplicity.

The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

I'm going to be your guide.

Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.

From Crooked Media in Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

It was spring 2020 in the early weeks of the pandemic and 17-year-old Weida Bakari was

long on her bed at home on the island of Meilert.

Meilert is a French overseas territory, a département d'outre mer.

Weida was flipping through her phone and she was singing to herself.

She was almost always singing.

She was only an email popped up in her phone's inbox.

Why the red-on?

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