Sep 18th, 2004 · The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Web site -- which offers information in myriad languages -- by including a section in the Star Trek language Klingon. NPR's Scott Simon gets a review of the otherworldly pages from linguist Mark Okrand, who created the Klingon tongue.
Sep 17th, 2004 · We consider a new language invented by deaf children in Nicaragua, and how scientists are able to see the language evolving.
Sep 16th, 2004 · At a school in Nicaragua, deaf children are speaking a new language entirely their own, but it follows rules fundamental to all languages. Researchers report in Science that without coaching, the children used language rules to create a whole new language from the raw material of gestures in order to communicate. NPR's Joe Palca reports.
Sep 7th, 2004 · Commentator Geoff Nunberg considers brand names. They make up a significant proportion of the average person's vocabulary. Nunberg says the English language is being privatized.
Aug 30th, 2004 · We take a last look at the Athens games from the editor of the English-language edition of the Athenian newspaper Kathimerini.
Aug 25th, 2004 · NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports on the death of psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author of On Death and Dying and a pioneer of the modern hospice movement. She revolutionized the "language" of death and named the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Kubler-Ross died Tuesday at the age of 78.
Aug 24th, 2004 · A new CD offers famous and infamous American political phrases in Spanish. English-Spanish Campaign Audio Flash Cards sounds like a typical lesson from a high school language lab. We hear "I Am Not a Crook" in Spanish and "Lock Box."
Aug 21st, 2004 · Two hundred years after their country became unified through one language, natives of southern France are resurrecting the Occitan patois through a blend of rap, reggae and folk. Producer Julian Crandall Hollick reports as part of the Worlds of Difference series.