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 Yuckwer.

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

I am an awe-v 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 2018 and Luke Barito was living in the city of San Denis, a suburb just north

of Paris.

He worked as a maintenance technician, a technician to maintenance in one of Paris's biggest hotels,

but at heart he was a book lover.

Luke loved the city of San Denis, but there was just one bookstore in town.

Luke founded Strange, more than 100,000 people lived in San Denis.

Many of them students, immigrant families, and members of the working class, the class

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