AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: another conversation from last month's international convention in Denver, Colorado, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. MARTINA MBAYU NANA: I am Martina Mbayu Nana. I teach English

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词汇大师-- To Catch On to Phrasal Verbs

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- English teacher Lida Baker joins us from Los Angeles to talk about phrasal verbs. RS: The first word is a verb. The second word, sometimes even a third, is usually a preposition

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词汇大师-- Hunting for the Snark

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER, we talk with David Denby. He's a film critic for the New Yorker magazine and author of a new book. In it, he attacks a form of expression used increasingly in public discourse in

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词汇大师-- Recession Spawns an Expanding Lexicon

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: terms from the recession. Dictionary editor Ben Zimmer is back with us. And it sounds like he's going to start with a popular term these days, shovel-ready. (Sound of shoveling) B

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词汇大师-- 'It's This or It's This'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our conversation with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program centers on a class called Intergroup Dia

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词汇大师-- Teacher Sees 'Big Push' to Promote English

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: meet an English teacher in the United Arab Emirates. She stopped by the VOA Special English booth at the recent TESOL convention, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. It took place i

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词汇大师-- 'Ms.' Has a Longer History

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our language-hunting friend Ben Zimmer has been tracking the origin of the female title Ms., which, unlike Mrs. for a married woman and Miss for someone who's single, does not ind

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词汇大师-- Smoothing Out English With Help From Sentence

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: some pronunciation rules to help make your speech sound more natural. RS: Back with us from Los Angeles is Nina Weinstein, author of the English teaching book Whaddaya Say? Guided

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词汇大师-- Teaching to a New Generation of English Learne

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we get the inside story on English teaching in Azerbaijan. RAGSANA MAMMADOVA: I'm Ragsana Mammadova from Azerbaijan. I am executive director of the Azerbaijan English Teachers Association. AA: How many

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词汇大师-- You Say LOLL, I say LOHL; Either Way

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with linguistics professor Pamela Munro, editor of the latest edition of a dictionary of slang used at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of the terms may be exclusive to the ca

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词汇大师-- More to a 'Buck' and Less to a 'Bromance'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Pam Munro, a linguistics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, about the latest slang on campus. It's in U.C.L.A. Slang, a dictionary that she and her students have publi

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词汇大师-- The Declining Happiness in Song Lyrics

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: a happiness meter built on word choice. We continue our conversation with Chris Danforth, a mathematician at the University of Vermont. He and his colleague Peter Dodds did a comp

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词汇大师-- Getting a Read on World Happiness

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: using bloggers as a measure of the world's happiness. How does that add up? Just ask Chris Danforth, an applied mathematician at the University of Vermont. CHRIS DANFORTH: A colle

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词汇大师-- You Do Not Have to Watch 'Star Trek'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk about invented languages. RS: These are the subject of a new book by linguist Arika Okrent. ARIKA OKRENT: For most of the history of invented languages, they've been tryin

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词汇大师-- Drink the Corporate Kool-Aid?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with Ralph Keyes, author of the new book I Love It When You Talk Retro. RS: He explores the origins of terms that Americans use even if they are too young to remember w

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词汇大师-- Some Terms That Have Outlived Their Roots

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: our guest is author Ralph Keyes (kize). His newest book about language has a mouthful of a title. RS: It's called I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Dr

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词汇大师-- Exploring 'Myths and Misconceptions'

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we're back with Pat O'Conner, co-author of the new book Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. RS: For instance, consider English's lack of --

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词汇大师-- What Are Your Agenda for the Meeting?

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Pat O'Conner, co-author with her husband Stewart Kellerman of a new book called Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. RS: But fir

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词汇大师-- Small Talk, American-Style

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: language in action. We have two reports. RS: We start with a program in the International Business School at Brandeis University near Boston, Massachusetts. It helps introduce for

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词汇大师-- Training Teachers in Places With Few Resources

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: another interview from this year's convention of the group TESOL, for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. ABOUBAKAR OUEDRAOGO: I'm Aboubakar Ouedraogo. I'm a teacher-educator from Burki

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