Summary on A Persian insult, an Inuit dialect, and Urdu Directions

Emily Patrick 9/13/10

This audio talks a lot about language and the places and ways that people speak. The beginning says that the more perfected and the better sounding that your language is, the more you are respected. It also shows how Ahmadinejad spoke differently to different types of people. Then, Stephen Leonard is interviewed about him going to Northwest Greenland to learn about the language there. We also hear that the movies are more popular when talked about by people, and also by critics. When a Hindu woman talks, she talks about their sense of direction. She says that it is hard for them to understand because some of the words are the same as each other. This taught me more about the importance of language, and the ways that different cultures differ in their language.