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Jag Bhalla
Pentagon still kicking out linguists, Ukraine’s Soviet names, and a banquet of foreign idioms
In the lastest podcast, the Obama Administration is moving to boost foreign language speakers at the State Department and the CIA. But at the Pentagon there’s a problem: the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy has resulted in early discharge for more than 300 linguists, including 60 Arabic speakers. Also today, Ukraine wants to change the names of cities named after Soviet heroes, many of them Russian. And a conversation with Jag Bhalla, collector of foreign language idioms. Listen to The World in Words Podcast
Jag Bhalla’s “I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears.”
If I told you that I’m not hanging noodles on your ears, you probably wouldn’t know what I mean. No surprise there; that’s the literal translation of a Russian expression. A new book highlights all kinds of quirky phrases from around the globe. And guess what? It’s called I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears, [...]
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