A couple of new episodes of ‘Talk the Talk’ on RTRFM.

We’ve thrown it open for questions, and here’s the first. It’s about language mixing. What’s the deal with those mixed languages like ‘Franglais’, ‘Chinglish’, ‘Singlish’, and ‘Portugnol’?

Well, some of them are full languages, some are just a general tendency to borrow words, and some are something else.
Check it out here.

I’m on about 5/6ths of the way through the stream. Watch out; it starts playing as soon as the page loads.
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The second episode is about the word ‘like’. Facebook recently changed its rules so that instead of becoming a ‘fan’ of things, you ‘like’ them instead. But what’s behind the word ‘like’? It has a past, you know.

This one is an mp3.

Do you have a question about language that we should address on ‘Talk the Talk’? Well, email the station at