AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sport of conversation. FIRST ANNOUNCER: Not going to stop him! SECOND ANNOUNCER: I tell you, you get him out on the run, Felton's quick, but he's not faster than Brown. Felton...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: an interview with one of our listeners in Iran. RS: Atefeh is a university student. She's studying English literature, so she reads a lot of classic books. But, like any young per...
AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: linguistic profiling. WALT WOLFRAM: What I mean by linguistic profiling is to hear a voice and on the basis of that voice make a judgment about that person which would sort of rat...
Broadcast: February 22, 2005 I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we say hello again to English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles to talk about greetings in America. AA: So now typically, if someone says 'how are you doi...
February 16, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: words that express emotion. RS: Suppose someone gave you two minutes to write down as many different emotions as you could think of -- for example: happy, sad, a...
February 9, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more junk English. RS: Back in 2001, we talked to writer Ken Smith about his book Junk English. In his words, Junk English is much more than sloppy grammar. Most...
First broadcast: February 2, 2005 Personal computers and the Internet have become vital tools for everything from communications and research to entertainment and office work. Not surprisingly, new words connected with these technologies are becoming...
First broadcast: January 26, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: we answer a couple of questions with help from English teacher Lida Baker in Los Angeles. The first is from a listener who teaches physics at Heb...
First broadcast: January 19, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we talk about regional changes in American English with University of Pennsylvania linguist William Labov [la-BOVE]. Imagine a situation like this...
First broadcast: January 12, 2005 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the sounds of change. RS: If you want a good example of how language changes, just picture a mouse. Are you thinking of a rodent -- or a device f...
Broadcast: December 22, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year. LIDA BAKER: My first resolution tha...
Broadcast: December 15, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: more of our conversation with Jim Tedder, the creator of VOA's online Pronunciation Guide. RS: It used to be that when announcers at VOA needed to kno...
Broadcast: December 8, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: VOA's prince of pronunciation. RS: Jim Tedder has been with VOA for 25 years. He works in the English production branch, and is one of the news readers...
Broadcast: November 17, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster we have part two of our look at proverbs in American English. RS: We continue our conversation with Wolfgang Mieder, a professor of German and folklore...
Broadcast on VOA News Now: November 10, 2004 AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: proverbs in American English. RS: It's tempting to call Wolfang Mieder the proverbial expert from out-of-town. A professor of German a...
