The World in Words 89: Translators working overtime, renaming Asian carp, and counting in Chinese

Translators are proving their worth twice in this week’s podcast: in New York, where they’re helping elderly Russian speakers fill out their census forms; and in Louisiana and Mississippi where they’re interpreting for Vietnamese-American fishermen whose livelihoods are threatened by the big oil spill. Also, which do you think tastes better: Silverfin, Kentucky tuna or Asian carp? They are one and the same fish. And finally, a conversation about counting: some languages are more numerate than others.