In this edition of The World in Words, the stories of a couple of people who aimed just a little too high. Linguist Derek Bickerton talks about his lifelong love of creoles and his attempt to create a new language by importing a half-dozen families onto an uninhabited desert island. Bickerton’s memoir, Bastard Tongues, is a page-turner, and not just for story of the island experiment he conjured up. Also in this cast former speechwriter Gregory Levey on how he almost got an Israeli prime minister to quote from a Seinfeld episode. Listen in iTunes or here.
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