BBC E-mail: Congo word 'most untranslatable'

[P. Kerim Friedman]

More discussion of this BBC story can be found here:

<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001104.html>

- kerim

On Jun 23, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Aurolyn Luykx wrote:

> Aurolyn Luykx saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
> should see it.
>
> ** Message **
> Rather a silly and misleading contest, but I guess any raising of
> public awareness about linguistic complexity is a good thing, right?
>
> ** Congo word 'most untranslatable' **
> A word in the Tshiluba language of the DR Congo is the most difficult
> to translate, according to a survey of linguists.
> < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/africa/3830521.stm >