Stephen Fry on Planet Word, MIPCOM 2010

In this exclusive interview with MIPCOM daily News' Julian Newby, Stephen Fry discusses his new 5-part linguistic documentary series Planet Word, produced by Fry's company Sprout Pictures. It will screen on the UK's BBC2 late 2011.

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[thundertid]

So excited about this new series.

[LeftyHandedGuns]

Lan-guidge.

Lan-GUIdge.

<3

[ScottyTheBullet]

Fry has thought me more in sixteen minutes than any of my school teachers could teach me in a full day.

[cornbagel]

Saluton Esperantistoj! Kion vi pensas pri la intervjuo?

[chrisliroe]

Sorry that's my naughty little son! Great programme. Fascinating facts about pinyin man.

[chrisliroe]

Very bad

[chrisliroe]

Bad

[chrisliroe]

Ok

[seeingyouaround]

uh boy, no matter what the topic is, I think Stephen can talk about it for days on end without repeating himself..

..and we are more than happy to listen!

[TobyEllisSongwriter]

@JOZeldenrust I see your definition absolutely: what I forgot to put in my post was the idea of "Bound" and "Free" morphemes (refering to morphemes that can stand independently as words versus those that are "bound" and requiring other morphemes to function).

But tbh when we get to that level of analysis its just Tomatoes English accent and Tomatoes american accent. All the same thing.

Thanks for your help! :D

[MrZetteke]

I love to listen to this man speak so much, it hurts a little..

[Plutonar]

Not quite right here, Fry. The Dutch word "lul", literally "c*ck" or "d*ck" means as much as "arse" or "d*ck", i.e. "(male) pain in the arse". Not that I ever thought anything more strange about LulzSec than the average American.