Creating meaning out of words, while running them backwards—called palindromes—is one way of creating patterned order while playing with language. The first-ever World Palindrome Championship, held in New York last month, was won by Mark Saltveit.

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Lingua Franca, presented by Maria Zijlstra, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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Folge vom 21.04.2012Palindrome champion of the world
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Folge vom 14.04.2012Language ConnectionLanguage exchanges exist all around the world, where people with different languages meet up to learn from each other. One such, in Melbourne, aims to give international students the tools they need to make friends and love their time in Australia.
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Folge vom 07.04.2012DothrakiSpoken by a tribe of nomadic warriors on horseback in the television series Game of Thrones, Dothraki is the latest new language constructed for screen-based sci-fi and fantasy entertainment, designed to infuse content with a increased credibility and to stimulate greater audience involvement.
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Folge vom 31.03.2012The Australian National Corpus: a big inventory of language in AustraliaA great collection of language data, text-based as well as digital, has been launched online, so that documentation of Australia's linguistic landscape is now available for all. Kate Burridge launched the AustNC at Griffith University in Brisbane on March 26, 2012.