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