Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.13.08 | 11:13 AM ET
The latest World in Words podcast features interviews with Ilan Stavans, who is translating the first 2,000 manuscript pages of Don Quixote into Spanglish, and Bill Santiago, who does stand-up comedy in Spanglish. Intriguing discussions about the rise of “the fastest growing language in America.”
Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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Ben 10.14.08 | 12:45 PM ET
On a related note, I’m fascinated by the rapid rise and evolution of Chinglish (http://www.languagemonitor.com/number-of-words-in-english/globalenglish/chinglish). Incidentally, has anyone who’s traveled in China happened across a sign for a “Deformed Man Toilet?”