

Podcast Review: Radiolab on Translation, Part 2
The second story featured in the Radiolab podcast takes a step away from the concept of translation between languages to focus instead on translation between cultures, specifically in the case of the word “serious” and the different connotation that it carries in East Africa. In that area of the world, as Nairobi-based correspondent Gregory Warner explains, to be “serious” means to take action, rather than merely to talk about a problem. This difference in meaning was once th