The World in Words 33: Does being bilingual give you a split personality? And skirt-and-blouse politics in Ghana
The focus this week is on language and personality. Does Barack Obama’s bilingual nominee for Commerce Secretary Bill Richardson have an English-speaking personality and a Spanish-speaking personality? A prominent bilingual scholar says many people develop differently depending on which language they’re using. Also, Mexican-American singer Julieta Venegas is bilingual but she sings in only one language, and the strange shorthand of Ghanaian electoral politics.
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