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, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and 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 and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

It was January 2017 and Dr. Serge Romana, a medical professor at a hospital in Paris, was

getting ready to do something bold.

French senators were about to vote on a bill and Serge wanted to get their attention.

So he set up a camping tent in front of the French Senate building and he went on a

hunger strike.

This can seem extreme to do a hunger strike.

But the senators were well voted on a subject that was very important for me and the association

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