Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and his wife Aino maintained a bilingual correspondence throughout their married life. He wrote to her in Swedish. She wrote back in Finnish. The World’s Patrick Cox reports that a Texas-based linguist is now studying this correspondence for clues about how bilinguals communicate.
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