The World in Words 98: Deciphering, refudiating, and Kevin
Another top five language stories: an Israeli study shows bilinguals respond differently depending on the language of the questions; new research points to a possible breakthrough in deciphering ancient scripts; Sarah Palin compares her coinage of new English words to Shakespeare’s; a science writer argues that language diversity condemns a society to poverty; and Clark Boyd’s adventures in linguistically confused Belgium.
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