Hampton Catlin
Co-founder of WordSet, a collaborative online dictionary aiming to document diverse forms of English; appears as a guest to discuss Euro-English and linguistic variation.
Best podcasts with Hampton Catlin
Ranked by the Snipd community
Sep 9, 2015 • 14min
18. Fix part II
Michael Catlin, co-founder of WordSet and podcast co-host on We Have a Microphone, and Hampton Catlin, co-founder of WordSet, explore Euro-English as used by EU technocrats. They highlight quirky Latinate forms like planification and new verbing such as to valorize. They trace how bureaucracy, literalism and false friends shape a distinct, evolving variety of English.
