Squid Game in Translation

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of Spectacular Vernacular, hosts Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer chat about Netflix’s latest hit, Squid Game. They also interview award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker, John Colapinto, about his book This is the Voice. And finally, we bring on chart analyst, pop critic, and host of the Slate podcast “Hit Parade,” Chris Molanphy for a fun music quiz. We hope you’re ready! You could win a year’s membership to Slate Plus. Do you have any language questions or fun facts to share? Email us at [email protected]. Produced by Jasmine Ellis. Subscribe to Slate Plus. It’s only $1 for the first month. To learn more, go to slate.com/spectacularplus. dgyyKiS48oA6lor0RqFt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	Hello, I'm Nicole Holiday, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:07.3	And I've been Zimmer, language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
1:10.0	And this is Spectacular Renacular, a podcast where we not only explore language.
1:14.8	We also play with it.
1:16.6	This week we'll be talking to John Colapinto, an award-winning staff writer at the New Yorker
1:20.8	who's written a book about the human voice inspired by his experience of losing his own voice.
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1:37.2	So Nicole, I'm not sure how much time you have these days for binge-watching new shows,
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