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Stephen Fry's Planet Word: Episode 1

submitted by Janine V.

(Lilithia)
1 decade 3 years 1 month 4 weeks ago

YouTube: Stephen Fry explores linguistic achievements and how our skills for the spoken word have developed in a new five-part series for BBC Two.

In Planet Word, Stephen dissects language in all its guises with his inimitable mixture of learning, love of lexicon and humour. He analyses how we use and abuse language and asks whether we are near to beginning to understand the complexities of its DNA.

From the time when man first mastered speech to the cyber world of modern times with its html codes and texting, Planet Word takes viewers on a journey across the globe to discover just how far humans have come when it comes to the written and spoken word.

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A different thumbnail image for this video could not be found for findthumb request by Lilithia.

It's always so easy to *promote Stephen Fry. Excellent sift.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, September 26th, 2011 10:15am PDT - promote requested by Skeeve.

Re: Episode 2 - Good to see science is actively working on engineering mice who can talk.

Watched this the other night on iplayer. Fascinating stuff. I urge you to watch it all.

"I'm very much in favour of the Tower of Babel."

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Stephen Fry, Planet Word, Episode, Laguage, Words, Speech, Linguistics' to 'Stephen Fry, Planet Word, Episode, Language, Words, Speech, Linguistics' - edited by calvados

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