Linguistic progress with the "idioglossia" twins "
Pinit, putahtraletungay"(Finish, potato salad hungry)
"Nis, Poto?" (This, Poto?)
"Liba Cabingoat, it"(Dear Cabengo, eat)
"la moa, Poto?" (Here more, Poto?)
"Ya" (Yeah)
For more than two years the chirpy little girls discussing potato salad so incomprehensibly in a language clinic at San Diego's Children's Hospital have been among the world's most celebrated twins. They have been tested and videotaped, charted phonetically, featured on television and offered contracts for the film rights to their curious story. Grace and Virginia Kennedy are now nine. The excitable, blue-eyed sisters called each other Poto and Cabengo,...
