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Allusionist 131 Podlingual transcript

February 25, 2021 The Allusionist
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JAMES KIM: I wanted that experience for everybody to be in the character's shoes, and understand how it's like for somebody that you love to talk to you, but you can't understand a word that they're saying.

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In transcript Tags words, language, linguistics, education, comedy, entertainment, society & culture, arts, literature, etymology, lexicon, vocabulary, James Kim, Moonface, Lory Martinez, Mija, Ochenta Studios, podcasting, podcasts, fiction, drama, immigration, multilingual, bilingual, multiculture, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, libration

Allusionist 42+43. Survival: The Key rerun - transcript

May 4, 2018 The Allusionist
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I’ve been working on this mini series of episodes about minority languages and the threats they face and how they survive. Last episode, Welsh speakers took the drastic step of migrating to Argentina. But in researching it all, I keep referring back to a pair of Allusionists from a while ago: The Key. Part one, Rosetta, was about how a language survives in a physical form when its humans die, featuring the smash hit archaeological object the Rosetta Stone, and its namesake the Rosetta Disk, the linguistic key to the future. Part two is about how to decipher a dead language and why it might have died.

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In transcript Tags language, language death, language extinction, Rosetta Project, Rosetta Stone, Rosetta Disk, dead languages, Latin, Romans, Ancient Rome, British Museum, Long Now Foundation, past, future, history, preservation, interpretation, decipher, translate, stele, Egypt, Egyptian, Napoleon, archaeology, multilingual, bilingual, Oscan, ancient, extinction, Italy, graffiti, ancient languages, monolingual, Survival
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