WIWpodcast98.mp3

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.<img id="pri-insights" src=" http://api.pri.org/insights/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pri.org%2Fstories%2F... />

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