The World in Words news: Icelandic’s new words, teachers with accents, and baaaad translations
Our top five language stories this month: translating Iceland’s collapse into English, document by document; magnificently bad translations on Shanghai’s streets and at the Eurovision Song Contest; coming up with a language for communication with extraterrestrials; Arizona moves against accented schoolteachers; and Costa Rica’s new president Laura Chinchilla is one of millions of people worldwide who are named after animals.
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