The World in Words 100: A Persian insult, the planet’s northernmost tongue, and an Urdu sense of direction
Iran’s leader Ahmadinejad is known for his fruity prose, and this month he outdid himself with a new anti-American insult. Also, we hear from a linguist who’s spending a year in Northwest Greenland, documenting Earth’s northernmost dialect. Then, a survey of how foreign language movies in the United States are seeking new ways of finding their audiences. Finally, getting from Point A to Point B in Urdu, a language that has the same word for “go straight” and “turn right”.
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