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It is safe to assume that most readers of the International Newsletter are polyglots and have at times introspected their own strengths and weaknesses in the various languages they master. Some polyglots are so diversified that all the languages they speak betray a foreign accent. Others find that their emotionally charged language is best expressed in the so-called mother tongue, but that their professional abilities are best articulated in the language in which they learned their skills. There are polyglots who maintain a distinct barrier between languages and then there are others who constantly mix words in a vocabulary potpourri verging on the word salad. These individuals should not be confused with the eloquent, quasi-pedantic speakers who grace their discourse with foreign quotations or emphasize the pronunciation of alien terms with a distinct original native ring. Word salad spitters disgrace their languages, whereas users of foreign citations generally embellish and enrich their tongues.
Polyglots are a different species of individual. Although they come in many shapes and forms, the scope of their culture is in general more ample than that of unilinguals. …
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