Friday, October 5, 2007

The Ig Nobel Prize in Linguistics

"A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards."

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm

Presumably this means they could tell the difference between Dutch and Japanese spoken forward...

We've got to get going on this blog again!

1 comment:

meagan louie said...

My question is whether they trained people to speak their languages backwards...or, you know, did it the boring way and played a tape backwards..