Toad in the Hole - 2 September 2024

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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An ambitious effort to install poetry in national parks around the United States features the work of beloved poets in beautiful spots. It’s a reminder that “Nature is not a place to visit. Nature is who we are.” Also, Google Translate has expanded its offerings with 110 more languages. And: what’s an oatsmobile? Hint: it has four legs. Plus, bushwhack, POSSLQ, disappoint, an anagrammatic puzzle, King Kong vs. Godzilla, scudding, ary, eustress, chuck a sickie, toad-in-the-hole, and how to pronounce route. Be there or be square! Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email [email protected]. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the Shell About Language, and how we use it.
0:04.2	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:05.6	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:07.4	Google Translate just added 110 new languages.
0:11.2	These are the languages spoken by more than half a billion people.
0:15.5	And some of them are major languages like Cantonese and other ones are the endangered
0:20.8	languages like Manx, which is the Celtic language from the Isle of Man,
0:25.2	and then there are others in between, like Kalalisut, which is spoken in Greenland and Latgolian in
0:32.1	eastern Latvia, and about a quarter of these languages. in different languages there are in the world.
0:42.6	And number two, it's fascinating to see
0:44.7	that this is even possible to do.
0:47.7	I mean, 110 more languages than what's already there.
0:51.0	And a world of AI and large language models where they're getting a lot of pushback for their
0:55.8	mistakes, it's easy to miss sight of stuff like this that is now possible because of so-called AI and and Google has a long explanation on its
1:06.5	blog about how and why this happened but it really would not have been easily
1:10.9	possible without these advancements we've seen over the last five to
1:14.6	ten years.
1:15.6	Yeah, no, not at all.
1:17.1	Yeah, they look at these languages and they analyze the grammar and then they can present
1:21.9	translations.
1:23.0	I'm looking forward to it as somebody who deep dives the unusual dictionaries
1:27.5	at internet archive in old languages like Breton, B-R-E-T-O-N, which is spoken in France.
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