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71: You're Welcome, English! (live with friends, for LingFest23)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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The Great Poem for All the Civilizations Has an Episode

FEMA released word salad even in the wrong script as instructions for people harmed by recent floods. FEMA hired a company to translate some information into two languages in Yupiak and Yungtun, which is also known as central Yupik. The translations came back and they were given to the people as a way of telling them here's how to get help. It was basically text copied and pasted and rearranged from an old book from the 1940s.

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